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hypertensive

hypertensive adjective: of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension.

Adjective

hypertensive

  1. Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension.
    • The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney...2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun

hypertensive (plural hypertensives)

  1. A person with hypertension.
  2. A drug or substance that increases blood pressure.

Forms of hypertensive

pluralhypertensives

Origin of hypertensive

From hyper- + tensive or hypertension + -ive.

Words formed from hypertensive

Questions about hypertensive

What does hypertensive mean?
Hypertensive means of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension.
What part of speech is hypertensive?
Hypertensive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hypertensive in the dictionary

  1. hypertensinogen
  2. hypertensinogenic
  3. hypertensins
  4. hypertension
  5. hypertensions
  6. hypertensive
  7. hypertensively
  8. hypertensives
  9. hypertensor
  10. hypertensors
  11. hyperterrestrial

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