systolic pressure

1. 1.

   the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart

   Broaderblood pressure

Questions about systolic pressure

What does systolic pressure mean?

systolic pressure means "the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart".

Is systolic pressure a common word?

systolic 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.