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A medical condition in which the pressure of blood inside your blood vessels stays too high, often for a long time. You may feel nothing at all — doctors sometimes call it a quiet problem — but over years it can hurt the heart, the brain, and the kidneys. A doctor measures it with a cuff on your arm. Though actually, everyday English says high blood pressure far more often; hypertension is the doctor's word, and you will meet it on reports and in health class. It is not the same as feeling tense or stressed in the moment, even though tension sits inside the word. A calm person can still have hypertension, and a worried person may not.
From the word’s history
From hyper- + tension.
由 hyper-（過度）加上 tension（壓力）組成。
組成From hyper- (too much) + tension. Here tension is the medical word for pressure in the blood vessels, not the feeling of being nervous.
同家族的字
- tensionin this medical use, the pressure in the blood vessels
- hypotensionthe opposite doctor's word: blood pressure that is too low
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hypertensionnoun/ˌhaɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃən/
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cardiologymedicinesciencesA state of abnormally high blood pressure of arterial blood (arterial hypertension) or of the intra-ocular fluid.
- Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.
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A state of great (nervous or emotional) tension.
- The opportunity for which she had been tensely waiting was upon her. In a few minutes, as this hypertension and ruthlessness faded in her, it would be gone.
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