blood pressure
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- noun
- /blʌd ˈprɛʃər/
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presión arterial
- The doctor said my blood pressure is within a healthy range after the check-up.
- high blood pressure
- systolic blood pressure
- diastolic blood pressure
Sarah, Could chocolate improve my blood pressure sometimes.
- Sarah, Could chocolate improve my blood pressure sometimes.
- I think it's low blood pressure and extra dry ear wax.
- OK, don't really want to feel my blood pressure elevate at all.
- It was anger, blood pressure was out of control.
- That's going to allow your blood pressure to move back closer to normal.
- Heart rate will steadily rise, blood pressure will steadily rise.
- I think it's a strong effect on our blood pressure, on our stress levels.
- But that's that's measuring relative blood pressure and pulse rate and blood volume.
- So there's a normal range of blood pressure, normal temperature.
- The nurse is asking you questions while she checks your blood pressure through your shirt sleeve.
- And perhaps should you change to a blood pressure medication that has fewer side effects.
- It's not, as far as I'm aware, a contraindication if your blood pressure is well controlled.
- Ed and I, I kept asking her to take my blood pressure until it was fine.
- And so, you know, OK, get the blood pressure down a little bit.
- And both of these combined increase blood pressure, increase heart rate and stress hormones.
Examples
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But his eyes appeared less dilated, and his pulse and blood pressure, the doctor said, were normal.
Fiction book (1998) -
Your E.M.G. is completely normal, and your blood pressure has even gone down.
Fiction book (1993) -
This is the largest home survey of blood pressure ever in the world.
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Anyway, she did my blood pressure and it's like really good.
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Man, your blood pressure is way up.
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All of a sudden, my blood pressure went down.
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I think it's a strong effect on our blood pressure, on our stress levels.
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Suppose that weight has a far greater impact on blood pressure than height.
Academic text (1990) -
Forgiveness was, in turn, significantly associated with less alcohol use, lower blood pressure, and heart rate.
Academic text (2013) -
Based on these statistics, the benefits of lowering blood pressure look quite impressive.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A push on a surface by air or water
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The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries
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Morphology
The noun-noun compound is directly compositional: combining 'blood' (the circulating fluid) with 'pressure' (force exerted) yields the pressure exerted by the blood on vessel walls. This concept is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward English compound semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will reliably infer the general meaning (even if precise medical measurement details require further exposure).
Etymology
Blood pressure comes from a simple picture: blood pushing with pressure against the walls of the tubes that carry it. That's why 'blood pressure' means the force of blood flow and a common measure doctors use to check health.