malignant hypertension

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   severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain

   “malignant hypertension is the most lethal form of hypertension”

   Broaderhigh blood pressure

   Narrowerportal hypertension

Questions about malignant hypertension

What does malignant hypertension mean?

malignant hypertension means "severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain".

Is malignant hypertension a common word?

malignant hypertension 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.