SYSTOLIC PRESSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systolic pressure mean? 

• SYSTOLIC PRESSURE (noun)
  The noun SYSTOLIC PRESSURE has 1 sense:

1. the blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart

  Familiarity information: SYSTOLIC PRESSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTOLIC PRESSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) during the contraction of the left ventricle of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("systolic pressure" is a kind of...):

blood pressure (the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health)

 Context examples 

A test result that reports the diastolic and systolic pressure of the blood.

(Blood Pressure Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The ratio of ankle systolic pressure to brachial systolic pressure, used to assess arterial insufficiency in the lower extremities.

(Ankle-Brachial Index, NCI Thesaurus)

This is called systolic pressure.

(High Blood Pressure, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

For example, even among women with normal blood pressure in the first trimester, an increase in systolic pressure (the top number) was associated with a 41% higher risk of any hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, compared to women with a decrease in systolic pressure between the first and second trimester.

(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)