Your blood pressure is the amount of force with which your blood flows around your body.
Your doctor will monitor your blood pressure.
The Prime Minister had been taken ill with high blood pressure.
blood pressure in British English
noun
the pressure exerted by the blood on the inner walls of the arteries, being relative to the elasticity and diameter of the vessels and the force of the heartbeat
blood pressure in American English
the pressure exerted by the blood against the inner walls of the blood vessels, esp.the arteries, or the heart: it varies with health, age, emotional tension, etc.
Examples of 'blood pressure' in a sentence
blood pressure
This includes conditions such as mild asthma and high blood pressure.
The Sun (2016)
They help lower blood pressure as well as calming our thoughts.
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Speak to your doctor about your high cholesterol and blood pressure.
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High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes.
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Garlic is a superfood which fights high blood pressure, high cholesterol and many cancers.
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Contrary to pub lore, high blood pressure has few if any symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The system uses technology to monitor blood pressure, glucose and weight, for example.
Computing (2010)
High blood pressure accounts for about half of all strokes.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The clips can trigger changes to heartbeat and force up blood pressure.
The Sun (2014)
Why is the doc just monitoring my blood pressure?
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It can also increase the chance stroke and high blood pressure.
The Sun (2006)
What is the best way to take blood pressure?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Blood pressure and heartbeat increase to help get the sugar from the blood to the cells.
Holford, Patrick The Family Nutrition Workbook (1988)
Previous research has suggested that owners have lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
And that is what the management of high blood pressure is all about.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This is a gizmo you wear which monitors your blood pressure for a whole day.
The Sun (2012)
We need further research to clarify the optimum time to take blood pressure pills.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It can also trigger internal bleeding and dangerously low blood pressure.
The Sun (2011)
Recommended care includes monitoring blood pressure and kidneys.
The Sun (2015)
Guests with high blood pressure may add a fourth.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This gives the lower reading when blood pressure is taken.
Martlew, Gillian & Silver, Shelley (ed) The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs (1988)
How to monitor your blood pressure at home?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They are told they can either take blood pressure medication or get their weight down with exercise.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He suggested that the app would be of most use for monitoring high blood pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Once high blood pressure had been established as a health problem in childhood it invariably continued into adulthood.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He was trying to lose weight again and his doctors were always pestering him about his high blood pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Both also had high blood pressure.
The Sun (2006)
There's also evidence to suggest that garlic can help to lower blood pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He was not sleeping, the doctors were worried about his blood pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There's a history of low blood pressure in the family.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
So he tries to make up for it in some other way - hence the fretting about blood pressure and cholesterol.
The Sun (2008)
In other languages
blood pressure
British English: blood pressure /blʌd ˈprɛʃə/ NOUN
Your blood pressure is a measure of the force with which blood is pumped around your body.
Your doctor will check your blood pressure.
American English: blood pressure
Arabic: ضَغْطُ الدَّم
Brazilian Portuguese: pressão arterial
Chinese: 血压
Croatian: krvni tlak
Czech: krevní tlak
Danish: blodtryk
Dutch: bloeddruk
European Spanish: tensión arterial
Finnish: verenpaine
French: tension artérielle
German: Blutdruck
Greek: πίεση αίματος
Italian: pressione arteriosa
Japanese: 血圧
Korean: 혈압
Norwegian: blodtrykk
Polish: ciśnienie krwi
European Portuguese: tensão arterial
Romanian: tensiune arterială
Russian: артериальное давление
Latin American Spanish: tensión arterial
Swedish: blodtryck
Thai: ความดันโลหิต
Turkish: tansiyon
Ukrainian: кров'яний тиск
Vietnamese: huyết áp
Chinese translation of 'blood pressure'
blood pressure
n(u)
血压(壓) (xuèyā)
to have high/low blood pressure有高/低血压(壓) (yǒu gāo/dī xuèyā)
to take sb's blood pressure量某人的血压(壓) (liáng mǒurén de xuèyā)