ARTERIAL PRESSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arterial pressure mean? 

• ARTERIAL PRESSURE (noun)
  The noun ARTERIAL PRESSURE has 1 sense:

1. the pressure of the circulating blood on the arteries

  Familiarity information: ARTERIAL PRESSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTERIAL PRESSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pressure of the circulating blood on the arteries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

arterial pressure is the product of cardiac output and vascular resistance

Hypernyms ("arterial pressure" is a kind of...):

blood pressure (the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health)

 Context examples 

The measurement of the mean left arterial pressure, as measured by a catheter introduced into the distal pulmonary artery, is normal.

(Normal Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac ARRHYTHMIA and elevation of systemic and pulmonary arterial pressures may occur.

(Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The mean arterial pressure (MAP) can be calculated by subsequent analysis of the waveform.

(Mean Arterial Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)

The measurement of the mean left pulmonary arterial pressure, as measured by a catheter introduced into the distal pulmonary artery, is low.

(Low Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)

The measurement of the mean left arterial pressure, as measured by a catheter introduced into the distal pulmonary artery, is high.

(High Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)

The arterial pressure may be directly measured by insertion of an intra-arterial catheter connected to a transducer.

(Mean Arterial Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)