blood pressure

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblʌd ˌpɹɛʃə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

blood pressure (countable and uncountable, plural blood pressures)

1. 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

   The nurse spent all day taking blood pressures at the hospital.

   • 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!”

Derived terms

• diastolic blood pressure
• high blood pressure
• systolic blood pressure

Translations

pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries and veins

• Afrikaans: bloeddruk
• Arabic: ضَغْط اَلدَّمّ m (ḍaḡṭ ad-damm)
• Aragonese: presión sanguinia f
• Armenian: արյան ճնշում (hy) (aryan čnšum)
• Assamese: ৰক্তচাপ (roktosap)
• Asturian: presión sanguínea f
• Azerbaijani: qan təzyiqi, təzyiq (colloquial), davleniya (colloquial, Russianism)
• Basque: odol-presio
• Belarusian: крывяны́ ціск m (kryvjaný cisk)
• Bengali: রক্তচাপ (bn) (roktocap)
• Bulgarian: кръвно налягане n (krǎvno naljagane)
• Burmese: သွေးပေါင်ချိန် (my) (swe:paunghkyin), သွေးပေါင် (my) (swe:paung)
• Catalan: pressió arterial f, pressió venosa f, tensió arterial f, tensió sanguínia f, pressió sanguínia f
• Cherokee: ᎩᎦ ᎤᎵᏌᎳᏓᏁᎲ (giga ulisaladanehv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血壓／血压 (zh) (xuèyā)

• Crimean Tatar: qan basımı
• Czech: krevní tlak m
• Danish: blodtryk (da) n
• Dhivehi: ލޭގެ ޕްރެޝަރު (lēge prešaru)
• Dutch: bloeddruk (nl) m
• Esperanto: sangopremo
• Estonian: vererõhk
• Faroese: blóðtrýst n
• Finnish: verenpaine (fi)
• French: tension artérielle (fr) f, pression artérielle (fr) f
• Georgian: სისხლის წნევა (sisxlis c̣neva)
• German: Blutdruck (de) m
• Greek: πίεση αίματος f (píesi aímatos), πίεση του αίματος f (píesi tou aímatos)
• 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)
• Irish: brú fola
• Italian: pressione (it) f, pressione sanguigna f, pressione del sangue f
• Japanese: 血圧 (ja) (けつあつ, ketsuatsu)
• Kannada: ರಕ್ತದೊತ್ತಡ (kn) (raktadottaḍa)
• Karelian: verenpaino
• Kashmiri: خوٗنُک دَباو (khūnuk dabāv)
• Kazakh: қан қысымы (qan qysymy)
• Khmer: សម្ពាធ​ឈាម (sɑmpiət-chiəm)
• Korean: 혈압(血壓) (ko) (hyeorap)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تەوژمی خوێن (tewijmî xwên)

  Northern Kurdish: pestoya xwînê f

• Kyrgyz: кан басымы (ky) n (kan basımı)
• Latin: pressio sanguinis f
• Latvian: asinsspiediens m
• Lithuanian: kraujospūdis
• Luxembourgish: Bluttdrock m
• Macedonian: крвен притисок m (krven pritisok)
• Malay: tekanan darah
• Malayalam: രക്തസമ്മർദ്ദം (raktasammaṟddaṁ)
• Maltese: pressjoni tad-demm
• Maori: pēhanga toto
• Marathi: रक्तदाब m (raktadāb)
• Mongolian: цусны даралт (cusny daralt)
• Navajo: dił naʼałkidgi
• Nepali: रक्तचाप (ne) (raktacāp)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blodtrykk n

  Nynorsk: blodtrykk n

• Persian: فشار خون
• Pohnpeian: mwekimwekid en inta
• Polish: ciśnienie krwi (pl) n, ciśnienie tętnicze (pl) n
• Portuguese: pressão sanguínea (pt) f, pressão (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਲਹੂ ਦਾ ਦਬਾਅ (lahū dā dabāa)
• Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, presiune sanguină f, tensiune arterială (ro) f
• Russian: артериа́льное давле́ние n (arteriálʹnoje davlénije), кровяно́е давле́ние (ru) 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
• Swahili: shinikizo la damu
• Swedish: blodtryck (sv) n
• Tagalog: presyon ng dugo
• Tamil: குருதி அழுத்தம் (kuruti aḻuttam)
• Telugu: రక్తపోటు (te) (raktapōṭu)
• Thai: ความดันโลหิต (kwaam-dan-loo-hìt)
• Turkish: tansiyon (tr), kan basıncı (tr)
• Udmurt: вирзӥбет (virzibet)
• Ukrainian: кров'яни́й тиск m (krovʺjanýj tysk)
• Urdu: فشار خون
• Uzbek: qon bosimi
• Vietnamese: huyết áp (vi) (血壓)
• Volapük: bludiped
• Welsh: pwysedd gwaed