HYPERTENSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypertensive mean? 

• HYPERTENSIVE (noun)
  The noun HYPERTENSIVE has 1 sense:

1. a person who has abnormally high blood pressure

  Familiarity information: HYPERTENSIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• HYPERTENSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective HYPERTENSIVE has 1 sense:

1. having abnormally high blood pressure

  Familiarity information: HYPERTENSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERTENSIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has abnormally high blood pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hypertensive" is a kind of...):

patient (a person who requires medical care)

• HYPERTENSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having abnormally high blood pressure

Antonym:

hypotensive (having abnormally low blood pressure)

normotensive (having normal blood pressure)

 Context examples 

A benzothiazepine derivative with anti-hypertensive, antiarrhythmic properties.

(Diltiazem, NCI Thesaurus)

Scarring and atrophy of the renal cortex that occurs in hypertensive patients and in old age.

(Arterionephrosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)

NTP scientists evaluated published research on the link between traffic-related air pollution, or TRAP, and hypertensive disorders broken down by pollutant measurements of TRAP, such as particulate matter (PM2.5).

(Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution, National Institutes of Health)

A competitive and reversible angiotensin II receptor antagonist with anti-hypertensive property.

(Eprosartan, NCI Thesaurus)

A hypertensive disorder that develops during pregnancy.

(Hypertension-Associated Pregnancy Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

An increase in blood pressure between the first and second trimester also increased the risk of a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)

A prostaglandin F2alpha analogue and a prostanoid selective FP receptor agonist with an ocular hypertensive effect.

(Latanoprost, NCI Thesaurus)

There is reduced life-span (compared with LN and LL) with histopathological lesions characteristic of hypertensive disease in rats.

(LH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

There was severe diffuse diabetic glomerulosclerosis and severe hypertensive changes in arteries and arterioles characterised by fibrinoid necrosis and/or onion skin lesions as well as smooth muscle hyperplasia.

(CRDH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Manganese and selenium as micronutrients can counter the hypertensive effect of lead in blood, say the results of a new study conducted in Bangladesh.

(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)