High blood pressure is considered a silent killer. It sneaks up on you, carries no symptoms and can put you at risk for heart disease. It can also feel like it came out of nowhere, like it did for survivor, Shermane Winters-Wofford. Shermane thought she was perfectly healthy â until she suffered a stroke.
Medical Definition: hypodense. Making or has a capacity density or attenuation, less than the considered normal or reference to an area or structure. * Automatic translation.
Meaning: Abnormally low blood pressure. Classified under: Nouns denoting stable states of affairs. Hypernyms (hypotension is a kind of...): cardiovascular disease (a disease of the heart or blood vessels).Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of hypotension): orthostatic hypotension; postural hypotension (low blood pressure occurring in some people when they stand up).Antonym: hypertension (a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)).bnormally low blood pressure. Classified under: Nouns denoting stable states of affairs. Hypernyms (hypotension is a kind of...): cardiovascular disease (a disease of the heart or blood vessels).