hot reactor
hot reactor noun: a person whose blood pressure and heart rate increase abnormally in response to stress.
Noun
hot reactor (plural hot reactors)
- A person whose blood pressure and heart rate increase abnormally in response to stress.
- Secondly, BP and HR values at baseline and during test activity, and change scores (ie baseline level minus level during activity) are fairly stable on retesting. In other words, a hot reactor is still likely to be a hot reactor 6 months later.1982, RS Eliot, JC Buell, TM Dembroski, “Bio–Behavioural Perspectives on Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension and Sudden Cardiac Death”, in Acta Medica Scandinavica
Forms of hot reactor
| plural | hot reactors |
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Origin of hot reactor
Coined by Dr. Robert Eliot et al c. 1982
Questions about hot reactor
- What does hot reactor mean?
- Hot reactor means a person whose blood pressure and heart rate increase abnormally in response to stress.
- What part of speech is hot reactor?
- Hot reactor is a noun.
- What is the plural of hot reactor?
- The plural of hot reactor is hot reactors.
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