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What is the other name for hypertension?
The common name for hypertension is high blood pressure. To be diagnosed with high blood pressure, a person typically has three or more readings of 140/90 or higher.
What is the name of the device to monitor your blood pressure?
The real name for a blood pressure cuff is sphygmomanometer.
What is the other name of blood pressure?
High blood pressure is hypertension, and low blood pressure is hypotension.
When checking a blood pressure the name of artery that is palpated is?
radial is the artery that is palpated when checking a blood pressure
What is the name of the blood pressure measuered when the ventricles relax?
The blood pressure measured when the ventricles relax is called diastolic blood pressure. It is the lower number in a blood pressure reading, representing the pressure in the arteries when the heart is at rest between contractions.
What is the name of the breeze that will develop between the High Pressure and Low Pressure areas?
wind!!
Does stress and medications affect blood pressure?
Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system which does increase the blood pressure. Many medications effect blood pressure, too many to name.
What is the technical name for abnormally high blood pressure?
Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure.Dangerously high blood pressure is called critical hypertension.
What is the real name for a blood pressure monitor?
A sphygmomanometer.
Name 3 areas most at risk from pressure sores?
The 3 areas most at risk from pressure sores are the sacrum, coccyx, and the hips.
What is a name of high blood pressure medicine?
Hypertension = High Blood Pressure Tachycardia = High Pulse
Which measurement is a reading from a sphygmomanometer?
A sphygmomanometer is a device used to measure blood pressure. A more common name for this device is a blood pressure meter.
