Medicine. A sudden debilitating effect produced by over-stimulation of nerves, intense pain, violent emotion, or the like; the condition of…

Medicine. Abnormally or excessively high ‘tension’ or pressure of a bodily fluid. Of arterial blood; essential hypertension, hypertension that…

Abnormally low ‘tension’ or pressure of arterial blood.

high blood pressure, hypertension, esp. when without evident cause.

= hyperpiesis n. (the two words were distinguished in meaning by Allbutt: see quots.).

(a) n. colloquial high blood pressure; hypertension; (b) adj. Philippine English angry, agitated.