low blood pressure

noun

: hypotension

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It’s also intended to alert first responders and other healthcare providers that a woman has recently given birth and to check for postpartum complications, such as low blood pressure, bleeding, or infections. — Andrew Jones, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026 If the infection enters the bloodstream, symptoms also can include fever, chills, low blood pressure and blistering skin lesions. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 The potentially fatal infection can quickly result in tissue damage and spreading blisters, low blood pressure, fever, organ damage, sepsis and potentially death. — Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026 Those who become infected after ingesting contaminated seafood can experience fever, chills, dangerously low blood pressure and blistering skin lesions. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for low blood pressure

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of low blood pressure was in 1924

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Kids Definition

low blood pressure

noun
: blood pressure that is abnormally low especially in the arteries

called also hypotension

Medical Definition

low blood pressure

noun
: hypotension sense 1

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