Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a condition in which blood-pressure at rest is higher than the body's needs. Because hypertension lacks overt symptoms, high blood pressure can go unnoticed for years.
metric (Noun). A measurement of the distance between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) positive definiteness: and, (2) symmetry: , and (3) triangle inequality: . metric (Verb).
In order to properly convert from one metric unit to another, you must have the prefixes memorized. One good technique is to use flashcards. Here is a search for metric prefix flashcards. There is even someone selling an e-book for metric prefix flashcards.hese skills will be necessary in order to correctly convert one metric unit to another. A metric prefix is a modifier on the root word and it tells us the unit of measure. For example, centigram means we are count in steps of one one-hundredth of a gram, Î¼g means we count by millionths of a gram.