Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

white coat hypertension

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: white -coat hy-per-ten-sion
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Patients with white coat hypertension did not show a generalized increase of blood pressure lability, nor an exaggerated pressor response while at work. . . . In such patients, the pressor response may be relatively specific to the physician's office and lead to significant misclassification of hypertension."

Etymology

From white coat + hypertension, due to the typical uniform of a medical practitioner.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

white-coat hypertension (alternative) whitecoat hypertension (alternative)

Synonyms

white coat effect white coat syndrome white coat high blood pressure

Questions

What does white coat hypertension mean?: Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.
Where does white coat hypertension come from?: From white coat + hypertension, due to the typical uniform of a medical practitioner.

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