hypertensive
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- adjective
- /ˌhaɪpərˈtɛn.sɪv/
- Specialized
:
hipertensivo
- So he is having his blood pressure checked to make sure he is not also hypertensive.
- hypertensive patients
- hypertensive disease
- hypertensive treatment
Examples
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Why salt intake often (in about 60 percent of hypertensive patients) leads to high blood pressure is not fully understood.
Academic text (1991) -
Because there are many causes of raised blood pressure, different hypertensive patients may owe their condition to different gene combinations.
Academic text (1991) -
By age fifty, nearly half of U.S. black men are hypertensive.
Academic text (1991) -
Strategy 2 entailed screening and treatment of all hypertensive people with CVD risk > 20%.
Academic text (2018) -
However, while there were more diabetic women, there were more current smokers and slightly more hypertensive patients among the males.
Academic text (2007) -
One of the concerns is that patients who fall into this category may be misdiagnosed as hypertensive and treated with medications that they do not need.
Academic text (2012) -
The patient was diagnosed with chronic renal failure secondary to hypertensive nephrosclerosis and was prescribed hemodialysis and blood transfusions.
Academic text (2006) -
The doctor advised him to control his diet because he was becoming hypertensive.
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Regular exercise can help manage your hypertensive condition effectively.
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After monitoring his blood pressure, the nurse determined that he was hypertensive.
Synonyms
Having very high blood pressure
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypertensive = hypertension + hypertensive (transparent) = hyper + tens + ive
Zero-derivation from the adjective to the noun is regular and fully predictable.
Etymology
Hypertensive comes from Greek hyper- 'over' (as in hyperactive) and a part like tension meaning 'stretch' or 'pressure'. So, hypertensive describes a state of 'too much' pressure in the blood, which is why it means having higher than normal blood pressure.