English
Noun
blood pressure (countable and uncountable , plural blood pressures )
The pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries and veins ; it varies during the heartbeat cycle , and according to a person's age , health and physical condition .
the great majority of people who have serious conditions from high blood pressure suffer debilitating illness
1960 , P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse , “XVII, XVIII, AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing , London: Herbert Jenkins , →OCLC :She threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure , old ancestor.” “Never you mind my blood pressure . You let it alone, and it'll leave you alone. UPJOHN!”
The nurse spent all day taking blood pressures at the hospital.
Derived terms
Translations
pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries and veins
Arabic: ضَغْط اَلدَّمّ m ( ḍaḡṭ ad-damm )
Armenian: արյան ճնշում (hy) ( aryan čnšum )
Azerbaijani: qan təzyiqi , təzyiq ( colloquial ) , davleniya ( colloquial, Russianism )
Belarusian: крывяны́ ціск m ( kryvjaný cisk )
Bengali: রক্তচাপ ( roktocap )
Burmese: သွေးပေါင်ချိန် (my) ( swe:paunghkyin ) , သွေးပေါင် (my) ( swe:paung )
Catalan: pressió arterial f , pressió venosa f , tensió arterial f , tensió sanguínia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 血壓 / 血压 (zh) ( xuèyā ) , 血压 (zh) ( xuèyā )
Crimean Tatar: qan basımı
Czech: krevní tlak m
Danish: blodtryk (da) n
Dutch: bloeddruk (nl) m
Estonian: vererõhk
Faroese: blóðtrýst n
Finnish: verenpaine (fi)
French: tension artérielle (fr) f
Georgian: სისხლის წნევა ( sisxlis c̣neva )
German: Blutdruck (de) m
Gujarati: રક્તચાપ ( raktacāp )
Hebrew: לחץ דם (he) m ( lahats dam )
Hindi: रक्तचाप ( raktacāp )
Hungarian: vérnyomás (hu)
Icelandic: blóðþrýstingur (is) m
Indonesian: tekanan darah (id) , tensi (id)
Italian: pressione (it) f , pressione sanguigna f , pressione del sangue f
Japanese: 血圧 (ja) ( けつあつ, ketsuatsu )
Korean: 혈압 (ko) ( hyeorap ) (血壓 (ko) )
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Kyrgyz: кан басымы (ky) n ( kan basımı )
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Luxembourgish: Bluttdrock m
Macedonian: крвен притисок m ( krven pritisok )
Maori: pēhanga toto
Navajo: dił naʼałkidgi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blodtrykk n
Nynorsk: blodtrykk n
Polish: ciśnienie krwi (pl) n
Portuguese: pressão sanguínea (pt) f , pressão (pt) f
Romanian: tensiune (ro) f , presiune sanguină f
Russian: кровяно́е давле́ние n ( krovjanóje davlénije ) , давле́ние кро́ви n ( davlénije króvi )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крвни притисак m , крвни тлак m
Roman: krvni pritisak m , krvni tlak m
Slovak: krvný tlak m
Slovene: krvni tlak m
Spanish: presión sanguínea f , tensión arterial f , tensión venosa f , presión arterial f
Swedish: blodtryck (sv) n
Telugu: రక్తపోటు (te) ( raktapōṭu )
Thai: ความดันโลหิต ( kwaam-dan-loo-hìt )
Turkish: tansiyon (tr)
Udmurt: вирзӥбет ( virzibet )
Ukrainian: кров'яни́й тиск m ( krovʺjanýj tysk )
Vietnamese: huyết áp (vi)
Volapük: bludiped