hypotensiveadj.
/hʌɪpəʊˈtɛnsɪv/ Medicine.
Of, exhibiting, or associated with hypotension, esp. of the blood; tending to lower the blood pressure.
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1904 T. C. Janeway Clin. Study Blood-pressure vi. 153 Typhoid fever is more frequently hypotensive in the average case than the other acute diseases, pneumonia least.
1927 Medicine VI. 147 It is also true that many hypotensive subjects possess great bodily vigor.
1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xi. 213 It is also used..to combat a drop in blood-pressure occurring during spinal anesthesia and in other acute hypotensive states due to vasomotor failure.
1961 Lancet 29 July 222/2 Patients with severe arterial hypertension were given hypotensive drugs only if they had been so treated previously.
1966 Lancet 26 Mar. 677/1 A few hours after admission the patient became hypotensive and vasopressor drugs had to be used.
1973 Times 2 Oct. 15/2 One of the most common fatal side-effects is that it becomes hypotensive (low blood pressure).
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