Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Elevated blood pressure measured by a medical practitioner and deemed to result from the patient's emotional response to the medical environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: white coat effect, white coat syndrome, white coat high blood pressure
Antonyms: none provided
History
From white coat + hypertension, due to the typical uniform of a medical practitioner.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
