Pulmonary hypertension is a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in your lungs and the right side of your heart. In one form of pulmonary hypertension, tiny arteries in your lungs, called pulmonary arterioles, and capillaries become narrowed, blocked or destroyed. This makes it harder for blood to flow through your lungs, and raises pressure within your lungs' arteries.
â¢ LISP (noun) The noun LISP has 2 senses: 1. a speech defect that involves pronouncing 's' like voiceless 'th' and 'z' like voiced 'th'. 2. a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists. Familiarity information: LISP used as a noun is rare. â¢ LISP (verb) The verb LISP has 1 sense:
Li (Confucianism) Li (simplified Chinese: ç¤¼; traditional Chinese: ç¦®; pinyin: lÇ) is a classical Chinese word which is commonly used in Chinese philosophy, particularly within Confucianism. Li does not encompass a definitive object but rather a somewhat abstract idea and, as such, is translated in a number of different ways. Wing-tsit Chan explains that li originally meant a religious sacrifice but has come to mean ceremony, ritual, decorum, rules of propriety, good form, good custom, etc., and has even been equated with Natural Law.