| hypertensive |
having abnormally high blood pressure
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| hypertensive crisis |
dangerously high blood pressure of acute onset.
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| hypertensive encephalopathy |
a complex of cerebral phenomena (headache, convulsions, coma, etc.) occurring in the course of malignant hypertension.
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| hypertensive retinopathy |
that associated with essential or malignant hypertension; changes may include irregular narrowing of the retinal arterioles, hemorrhages in the nerve fiber layers and the outer plexiform layer, exudates and cotton-wool patches, a lipid star in the macula, arteriosclerotic changes, and, in malignant hypertension, papilledema. Called also hypertensive retinitis. See also renal r. and stellate r.
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| hypertensive arteriopathy |
widespread involvement, chiefly of arterioles and small arteries, associated with arterial hypertension and characterized primarily by hypertrophy and thickening of the media.
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