normotensive

English

Etymology

From normo- +‎ tensive.

Adjective

normotensive (comparative more normotensive, superlative most normotensive)

  1. Having normal tension.
  3. (medicine, cardiology) Having normal blood pressure.
    • 1986 January, MC Houston, “Sodium and hypertension. A review”, in Archives of Internal Medicine‎[1], pages 179–185:
      Abnormal sodium metabolism may be critical in the causation of certain forms of hypertension... These high-risk patients in whom subsequent hypertension may be prevented include normotensive patients with family histories of hypertension...

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Noun

normotensive (plural normotensives)

  1. A person who has normal blood pressure.
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