Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormally elevated arterial blood pressure.
- noun Arterial disease marked by chronic high blood pressure.
- noun Elevated pressure or tension of a body fluid, as of the intraocular or cerebrospinal fluids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extreme tension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun abnormally high blood pressure; especially, the chronic condition associated with persistent high blood pressure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology The disease or disorder of abnormally high
blood pressure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now he was running on dumb luck, a liver that he tried to revitalize with handfuls of vitamin B, and what he called the hypertension buzz, which produced a sound in his head like a fallen power line lying in a pool of water.
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Now he was running on dumb luck, a liver that he tried to revitalize with handfuls of vitamin B, and what he called the hypertension buzz, which produced a sound in his head like a fallen power line lying in a pool of water.
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Now he was running on dumb luck, a liver that he tried to revitalize with handfuls of vitamin B, and what he called the hypertension buzz, which produced a sound in his head like a fallen power line lying in a pool of water.
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Now he was running on dumb luck, a liver that he tried to revitalize with handfuls of vitamin B, and what he called the hypertension buzz, which produced a sound in his head like a fallen power line lying in a pool of water.
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Why, given these obesity numbers, does this increase in hypertension not surprise me in the least?
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Drives Hypertension Epidemic in the Young
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The definition of hypertension has been refined and new limits for what is now considered prehypertension have been established.
Bruce A. Barron: Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center
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Just to give one example, treatment of hypertension is greatly different between whites and African-Americans.
Culture and Health Care Costs, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The definition of hypertension has been refined and new limits for what is now considered prehypertension have been established.
Bruce A. Barron: Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center
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"If you look ... for things that we can prevent that lead to cognitive decline in the elderly, hypertension is at the top of the list," Dr. Walter Koroshetz, deputy director of NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, told The Associated Press.
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The definition of hypertension has been refined and new limits for what is now considered prehypertension have been established.
Bruce A. Barron: Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center
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