Your friend Jillian, who knows little about science, is reading a magazine article about a patient who had an 'aneurysm at the base of his brain that suddenly grew much larger.' The surgeons' first goal was to 'keep it from rupturing,' and the second goal was to 'relieve the pressure on the brain stem and cranial nerves.' The surgeons were able to 'replace the aneurysm with a section of plastic tubing,' so the patient recovered. Jillian asks you what all this means. Explain.

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Hey, everyone. Let's take a look at this question together. Blood pressure is an essential physiological parameter as it reflects the pressure within the cardiovascular system and helps maintain adequate blood flow to the organs and tissues. And abnormally high blood pressure is referred to as what is it? Answer choice. A hypotension. Answer choice B hypertension, answer choice, C art failure or answer choice D both answer choices A and answer choice. B let's work this problem out together to try to figure out which of the following answer choices describes an abnormally high blood pressure. So since we are looking for the term that describes an abnormally high blood pressure, we can eliminate answer choice C heart failure. Since heart failure does not describe an abnormally high blood pressure and instead describes the failure of the heart to work as intended. So that leaves us with either answer choice. A hypotension, answer choice B hypertension or answer choice D both answer choices A and B and looking at our answer choices, we know that answer choice, A hypo and answer choice B hyper are opposites of each other. Therefore, they cannot be both correct. So answer choice D can be eliminated. And we know that both answer choice A and B referred to the blood pressure. However, hypo specifically refers to an abnormally low blood pressure, whereas hyper refers to an abnormally high blood pressure. Therefore, answer choice B hypertension is the correct answer. Since hypertension describes an abnormally high blood pressure and answer choice. A hypotension describes that abnormally low blood pressure. So answer choice A is incorrect. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.