hyperpiesia

What does hyperpiesia mean?

hyperpiesia means "persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found".

How many syllables are in hyperpiesia?

hyperpiesia has 5 syllables and divides as hy-per-pi-e-sia under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hyperpiesia?

Close synonyms include essential hypertension, hyperpiesis. 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 hyperpiesia a common word?

hyperpiesia 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hyperpiesia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.