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  • Accelerated hypertension

    Significant increase in blood pressure, with some evidence of vascular damage on funduscopic examination of the retina. Prompt treatment is indicated to prevent organ damage.  

  • Hypersusceptibility

    An exaggerated susceptibility to an antigen, chemical, disease, or other stimulus.  

  • Hypersthenic

    Denoting excessive strength or tension.  

  • Recurrent hypersomnia

    Excessive sleepiness that occurs periodically (e.g., every few weeks or months).  

  • Hypersensitization

    Producing or inducing increased sensitivity to an organism or drug.  

  • Visceral hypersensitivity

    An abnormally low tolerance for painful stimuli in the internal organs. It is seen, e.g., in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.  

  • Autonomic hyperreflexia

    A serious (emergency) medical condition commonly seen in patients with injury to the upper spinal cord (above T6). It is caused by massive sympathetic discharge of stimuli from the autonomic nervous system. It may be triggered by distention of the bladder or colon, a skin lesion (pressure sore), catheterization or irrigation of the bladder, cystoscopy,…

  • Hyperprolinemia

    One of two metabolic diseases of amino acid metabolism that result in an excess of proline in the body.  

  • Hyperpolarization

    An increase in the resting potential of a cell membrane (e.g., a cell membrane of a neuron), causing the inside of the cell to become more negative. This change raises the threshold level for depolarization, thus making the cell relatively less sensitive to stimuli.  

  • Hyperploidy

    A condition of having one extra chromosome and thus not balanced sets of chromosomes.  

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