hypotension

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)

Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.

English hypo-

Proto-Indo-European *ten-

Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.

Proto-Italic *tendō

Latin tendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin tēnsiōder.

Middle French tensionbor.

English tension

English hypotension

From hypo- + tension.

Noun

hypotension (countable and uncountable, plural hypotensions)

1. (medicine, cardiology) The disease or disorder of abnormally low blood pressure.

Antonyms

• hypertension

Derived terms

• antihypotension
• hypotensive

Related terms

• hypovolemia
• orthostatic hypotension

Translations

disease of abnormally low blood pressure

• Bulgarian: ниско кръвно налягане (nisko krǎvno naljagane)
• Catalan: hipotensió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 低血壓症 / 低血压症 (dīxuèyāzhèng)

• Czech: hypotenze (cs) f
• Dutch: hypotensie (nl) f
• Finnish: hypotensio (fi), matala verenpaine
• French: hypotension (fr) f
• German: Hypotonie (de) f
• Greek: υπόταση (el) f (ypótasi)
• Icelandic: lágþrýstingur (is) m, óeðlilega lágur blóðþrýstingur m
• Italian: ipotensione (it)
• Japanese: 低血圧 (ja) (ていけつあつ, teiketsuatsu)
• Korean: 저혈압(低血壓) (ko) (jeohyeorap)
• Latin: hypotensio f
• Polish: hipotonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: hipotensão (pt) f
• Russian: гипоте́нзия (ru) f (gipotɛ́nzija), гипотони́я (ru) f (gipotoníja), пони́женное кровяно́е давле́ние n (ponížennoje krovjanóje davlénije)
• Spanish: hipotensión f
• Swedish: hypotoni (sv) c
• Tagalog: kubusdiin
• Thai: ความดันโลหิตต่ำ (kwaam-dan-loo-hìt-dtàm)
• Turkish: hipotansiyon (tr)

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

hypotension f (plural hypotensions)

1. hypotension

Further reading

• “hypotension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Interlingua

Noun

hypotension (uncountable)

1. hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure)