orthostaticadj.

1902 Med. Ann. 20 90 The condition..variously called intermittent or cyclical albuminuria, is perhaps best defined by the term orthostatic albuminuria, for..position is the factor which determines the appearance and disappearance of the albumin.

1927 Physiol. Rev. 7 466 Disturbed vascular conditions, such as orthostatic albuminuria.

1952 Acta Medica Scandinavica 143 336 (title) Orthostatic hypotension in diabetes mellitus.

1964 Life 2 Oct. 112/4 He had a dizzy spell and almost fainted due to ‘orthostatic hypotension’—a too-rapid pulse and lowered blood pressure because of impaired circulation.

1971 New Scientist 29 July 249/1 The cosmonauts of Soyuz 9 suffered from severe orthostatic hypotension and for several days were unable to assume the erect posture unaided.

1989 Brain 112 935 (table) Multiple episodes of orthostatic ischaemic attacks; minor stroke after carotid angiogram.

2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 May d2/3 Sawallisch, 79, has orthostatic hypotension, a condition of wildly fluctuating blood pressure.

1912 T. E. Peet Rough Stone Monuments p. iv The first and most important principle, that on which the whole of the megalithic construction may be said to be based, is the use of the orthostatic block, i.e. the block set up on its edge.

1926 D. G. Hogarth Kings of Hittites ii. 29 Ground-courses of orthostatic slabs.

1941 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 7 1 The use of large stones for orthostatic walling.

1975 World Archaeol. 7 18 The basic box form is reproduced in a variety of techniques normal to a prosperous peasant system, as timber, orthostatic or dry stone structures set above or below ground.

1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. ii. 83 An orthostatic chamber..implies continued access to the mortuary deposit.

1916 Man 16 117 The distinctive feature of the dolmen is the use of slabs of rock, most of them set orthostatically.

1950 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 234/1 The burial chamber or chamber tomb, a vault or chamber walled with megaliths set orthostatically side by side.

1993 Today's Chiropractic (Nexis) 22 68 The parasympathetic patient's blood pressure will almost always fail orthostatically, which means the systolic pressure and/or the pulse pressure will fail to rise 8 mm upon standing, and may even fall.