high blood pressure

Questions about high blood pressure

What does high blood pressure mean?

high blood pressure means "a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)".

What is another word for high blood pressure?

Close synonyms include hypertension. 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 high blood pressure a common word?

high blood 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.