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hypertensive, a. and n. Med.|haɪpəˈtɛnsɪv|
[f. prec. + -ive.]
A. adj. Of, exhibiting, or associated with hypertension, esp. of the blood; tending to raise the blood pressure.
1904T. C. Janeway Clin. Study Blood-Pressure vii. 221 The bath-treatment of typhoid fever seems to have as distinct an effect on the blood-pressure curve... I cannot but feel that this hypertensive effect is evidence of an action on the vaso-motor system. 1918Endocrinology II. 94 In case of the more strongly hypertensive extracts, kidney dilation and diuresis, together with augmented blood pressure, occur as the primary reaction. 1939D. M. Dunlop Textbk. Med. Treatm. 654 Digitalis..does not raise blood pressure in the hypertensive patient. 1954S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xiv. 212 This involves a rise determined..by the difficulty experienced by the sticky albuminous aqueous in escaping through the filtration channels at the angle of the anterior chamber (hypertensive iridocyclitis). 1956Nature 17 Mar. 523/2 These [compounds] are highly effective in lowering blood pressure and relieving certain hypertensive symptoms. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 39/1 Hypertensive heart disease, diagnosed on electrocardiographic and radiographic criteria, is also more common among negroes.
B. ellipt. as n. A person with arterial hypertension.
1939D. M. Dunlop Textbk. Med. Treatm. 652 Many hypertensives tend to over-eat. 1961Lancet 2 Sept. 510/2 The systolic and diastolic blood-pressures were slightly higher in the hypertensives' sons. 1972Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 13/8 In hypertensives, prostaglandins can lower the blood pressure. |