Hypertensive heart disease. Hypertensive heart disease includes a number of complications of high blood pressure that affect the heart. While there are several definitions of hypertensive heart disease in the medical literature, the term is most widely used in the context of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding categories.
History of the Steppe Introduction Geography. The Steppe (aka the Eurasian Steppe) is a vast strip of land stretching from Ukraine to Mongolia. The term steppe denotes grassland: a low-precipitation region with enough rain for grass, but not enough for trees (see Climates and Biomes).
prairie. 1  an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west. Compare pampas, savanna, steppe. 2  a tract of grassland; meadow.