White-coat-hypertension meaning
Transient high blood pressure that occurs during a medical examination, presumably as a result of anxiety.
noun
Transient high blood pressure that occurs during a medical examination, presumably as a result of anxiety.
noun
(medicine, idiomatic) Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.
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Alternative Forms
Alternative Form of white-coat-hypertension -
white-coat-effect, white-coat-high-blood-pressure, whitecoat hypertension
Origin of white-coat-hypertension
- From the white coats typically worn by physicians and other medical personnel during examinations
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition