diastolic pressure

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   the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) after the contraction of the heart while the chambers of the heart refill with blood

   Broaderblood pressure

Questions about diastolic pressure

What does diastolic pressure mean?

diastolic pressure means "the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) after the contraction of the heart while the chambers of the heart refill with blood".

Is diastolic pressure a common word?

diastolic pressure 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.