hypertensive means Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
adj
- 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, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).”
noun
- A person with hypertension.
- A drug or substance that increases blood pressure.