Pulmonary hypertension

 

hypertension in the pulmonary circuit; may be primary, or secondary to pulmonary or cardiac disease, e.g., fibrosis of the lung or mitral stenosis..

 

 

Hypertension

hi'per-ten'shun

 

High blood pressure. Despite many discrete and inherited but rare forms that have been identified, the evidence is that for the most part blood pressure is a multifactorial, perhaps galtonian trait. Its strong cybernetic properties may also be largely inherited but would not be reflected in measurements of heritability. The definition of what is “high” or “low” blood pressure is then entirely arbitrary, but extreme cases are undoubtedly dysgenic. Syn: hyperpiesis, hyperpiesia.

 

Origin

[hyper- + L. tensio, tension]

 

accelerated hypertension

adrenal hypertension

benign hypertension

borderline hypertension

essential hypertension

Goldblatt hypertension

idiopathic hypertension

labile hypertension

malignant hypertension

pale hypertension

portal hypertension

postpartum hypertension

primary hypertension

pulmonary hypertension

renal hypertension

renovascular hypertension

secondary hypertension

systemic venous hypertension