normotensive
nounEtymology From normo- + tensive.
1
A person who has normal blood pressure.
normotensive
adjEtymology From normo- + tensive.
1
Having normal tension.
2
Cardiology, Medicine, Sciences Having normal blood pressure.
- Abnormal sodium metabolism may be critical in the causation of certain forms of hypertension... These high-risk patients in whom subsequent hypertension may be prevented include normotensive patients with family histories of hypertension...1986 January 23, MC Houston, “Sodium and hypertension. A review”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, pages 179–185:
- Synonyms
- nonhypertensive
- Derived terms
- normotension
- Coordinate terms
- hypertensive, hypotensive