antihypertensive drug

1. 1.

   a drug that reduces high blood pressure

   Synonymsantihypertensive

   Broadermedicine

   NarrowerACE inhibitorchlorothiazideclonidinedoxazosinguanabenzhydralazinelabetalolMaxzidemethyldopaprazosin

Questions about antihypertensive drug

What does antihypertensive drug mean?

antihypertensive drug means "a drug that reduces high blood pressure".

What is another word for antihypertensive drug?

Close synonyms include antihypertensive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antihypertensive drug a common word?

antihypertensive drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.