Ottoman couch, how handsome your furniture. Lovelier now but dressed for a funeral. Begging you to sit for a portrait on the wall. To hang in the dark of some parliamentary hall.
arterial pressure - the pressure of the circulating blood on the arteries; arterial pressure is the product of cardiac output and vascular resistance. venous pressure - the pressure exerted on the walls of the veins by the circulating blood. circulation - movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: hypertension(Noun) The disease or disorder of abnormally high blood pressure. Hypertension. Hypertension or high blood pressure, sometimes called arterial hypertension, is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. This requires the heart to work harder than normal to circulate blood through the blood vessels.