hypertensive

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Definition of hypertensive

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension.
    “The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).”
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adj

  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension.
    “The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).”

noun

  1. A person with hypertension.
  2. A drug or substance that increases blood pressure.

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Etymology

From hyper- + tensive or hypertension + -ive.

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