"hypotension" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a condition of abnormally low blood pressure. For example, "The patient was suffering from hypotension, so the doctor prescribed medication to raise her blood pressure."
Other negative maternal effects caused by systemic analgesics are drowsiness, respiratory depression, and lowering of blood pressure (hypotension).
Moderate hypotension (low blood pressure) may occur in persons who are weak and enfeebled but more often does not represent a diseased state.
Abdominal tenderness, severe hypotension, shock, respiratory distress, and renal failure sometimes develop.
In other instances, postural hypotension may occur as a result of inadequate blood volume, of taking various drugs that affect the nervous control of the circulation, and from a wide variety of other causes.
Extensive bleeding is an obvious cause of reduced blood volume that leads to hypotension.
Transient hypotension may occur as a normal reaction in certain forms of syncope but is not necessarily associated with organic disease.
Other forms of syncope occur as a result of lowered blood pressure upon assumption of an upright position, a condition often called orthostatic hypotension.
Transient hypotension also may result from hypersensitivity of the carotid sinus.
Riley-Day syndrome is characterized by emotional instability, decreased tear production, low blood pressure upon standing up (postural hypotension), excessive sweating and blotchiness of the skin during excitement and eating, difficulty in swallowing, insensitivity to pain, seizures, vomiting, breath-holding, and poor motor coordination.
Components of the secondary injury cascade include anoxia (absence of oxygen), hypoxemia (low oxygen content in the blood), hypotension (low blood pressure), anemia (low blood cell count), hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain), edema, and increased intracranial pressure.
