hypertensionn.
/hʌɪpəˈtɛnʃən/ 1. Medicine. Abnormally or excessively high ‘tension’ or pressure of a bodily fluid.
a. Of arterial blood; essential hypertension, hypertension that has no apparent cause and cannot be explained as a consequence or symptom of some other lesion.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered pulse or circulation > [noun] > high or low pressure
shock1804
hypertension1893
hypotension1893
hyperpiesis1895
hyperpiesia1915
high blood1987
1893 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 997/1 ‘Hypertension’ and ‘hypotension’ are regarded not as indications, but as mala in se.
1906 Practitioner Dec. 829 The difference between the hard tight pulse of hypertension, and the soft compressible pulse of hypotension.
1920 L. M. Warfield (title) Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension.
1927 Physiol. Rev. 7 464 More recent writers have coined the name ‘essential hypertension’.
1955 G. Pickering High Blood Pressure vi. 130 By current practice which takes not a very high figure, such as 150/100, as the lower limit of hypertension, essential hypertension becomes by far the commonest form of hypertension.
1957 New Scientist 9 May 23/1 Hypertension causes one in every four deaths in the United States.
1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. iii. 106/1 The hypertension sometimes found in patients with hyperthyroidism is usually limited to elevation of the systolic pressure (systolic hypertension).
b. Of the intra-ocular fluid.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > disorders of intraocular fluid
hydrophthalmia1706
hypotonia1886
hypertonus1891
hypotonus1891
hypotension1909
uveoparotitis1917
hypertension1918
1918 R. H. Elliot Glaucoma v. 303 The treatment of established glaucoma. In these cases the hypertension is commonly associated with evidence of ocular congestion.
1969 Duke-Elder & Jay in S. Duke-Elder Syst. Ophthalm. XI. ix. 630 In some cases the rise in the intra-ocular pressure has been slight and transient, to some extent possibly because the formation of aqueous may have been inhibited by the hypertension itself in a physiological compensatory mechanism.
2. A state of great (nervous or emotional) tension.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > tension > [noun]
tensure1626
twitchiness1834
tension1847
tensity1862
hypertension1936
uptightness1969
1936 Times Educ. Suppl. 28 Nov. 429/3 In every such case the nervous instability and hypertension should be treated by relaxation and psychological readjustment.
1947 Year Bk. Arts in N.Z. III. 152 Mind burst out... Man's understanding tangled, ripped. Extremes are too much with us and the hypertensions.
1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind vii. 101 The opportunity for which she had been tensely waiting was upon her. In a few minutes, as this hypertension and ruthlessness faded in her, it would be gone.
1972 D. Haston In High Places xii. 140 Flying out of Katmandu, I felt really pleased at having a chance to come back so quickly... There was friendliness all around; urgency to do things didn't seem to exist. None of the hypertensions of the West. A relaxing atmosphere.
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