hypertension

1. 1.

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

   Synonymshigh blood pressure

   Antonymshypotension

   Broadercardiovascular disease

   Narroweressential hypertensionmalignant hypertensionsecondary hypertensionwhite-coat hypertension

Other forms of hypertension

plural

hypertensions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypertension

What does hypertension mean?

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

How many syllables are in hypertension?

hypertension has 4 syllables: hy-per-ten-sion. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /ˌhaɪpɚˈtɛnʃən/.

What is another word for hypertension?

Close synonyms include high blood pressure. 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.

What is the opposite of hypertension?

The recorded antonyms are hypotension.

Is hypertension a common word?

hypertension is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hypertension?

7 words rhyme with hypertension. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.