Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: pressure: the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) → 1
Candidate hypernym: eight-spot: one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face → 0
Candidate hypernym: copperplate: a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings → 0
Candidate hypernym: cat's-ear: European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears → 0
Candidate hypernym: stocking filler: a small Christmas present included in the Christmas stocking → 0
Candidate hypernym: ginseng: Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers → 0
Candidate hypernym: date bread: bread containing chopped dates → 0
Candidate hypernym: regulation: (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered → 0
Candidate hypernym: obscurity: an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known → 0
Candidate hypernym: ornithine: an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is important in the formation of urea → 0
Candidate hypernym: gerardia: any plant of the genus Gerardia → 0