systolic pressure
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- noun
- /sɪˈstɑlɪk ˈprɛʃər/
- Specialized
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presión sistólica
- A high blood pressure will typically result in a 10% to 20% higher systolic pressure (Allison, Hiatt, & Hirsch, 2008).
- high systolic pressure
Examples
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You have above-normal systolic pressure, which is less dangerous than a diastolic elevation.
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Naturally, your blood pressure varies with each stroke of your heart, so the first and second numbers refer, respectively, to the peak pressure at each heartbeat (systolic pressure) and to the minimum pressure between beats (diastolic pressure).
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Again, measure the systolic pressure.
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You can get systolic pressure, you can get respiration rate.
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Normally distributed variables: blood glucose, heart rate, cardiac cycle duration, cardiac contraction time, systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, HRV total power.
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However, Eric's systolic pressure is at a level where bringing it down is likely to do him some good in terms of heart attacks and strokes, and now, quite reasonably, Eric wants to know the advantages and disadvantages of medication.
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Patients with diffuse SSc (40%) had lower forced vital capacity and carbon monoxide diffusing capacity with higher pulmonary arterial systolic pressure.
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Hypotension, defined as a systolic pressure <80 mm Hg, occurred in 1 (1%) patient in the diltiazem group and in 3 (5%) patients in the glyceryl trinitrate group (not significant).
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At study entry, most of the patients had blood pressure high enough (mean systolic pressure 172 mm Hg) to confer protection against the hypotension associated with mechanical ventilation and positive end-expiratory pressure.
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The top number of a blood pressure reading, known as systolic pressure, indicates how hard your heart is pumping blood.
Antonyms
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Pressure in the arteries when the heart rests between beats, usually the lower blood pressure number
How High
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally denotes the pressure associated with systole: combining 'systolic' (the heartbeat contraction phase) with 'pressure' yields the meaning 'pressure during heart contraction.' This is a compositional, descriptive medical term (with direct equivalents in many languages), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Systolic pressure comes from the word systolic, which means 'to squeeze', and pressure, which means force in a tube. It names the 'highest pressure' in the arteries 'when the heart squeezes', so the name reminds you of the top number in a blood pressure reading.