Organism Function
pulse pressure
pulse pres·sure [ puhls presh-er ]
Definitions related to pulse pressure:
  • Difference between systolic and diastolic pressures.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • The change in systolic to diastolic pressure which produces a pulse.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The difference between systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure (systolic pressure minus diastolic pressure = pulse pressure). Pulse pressure may help predict heart disease risk.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • The force of a heart contraction measured by the difference between the diastolic and systolic blood pressure measurements.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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