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What is the term for blood pressure measured in lying, sitting, and standing positions?
Correct Answer:
Orthostatic
Explanation:
Blood pressure across lying, sitting, and standing tests how the body's cardiovascular system responds to gravity and maintains brain perfusion—the orthostatic response. This sequence is standard for assessing orthostatic blood pressure (orthostatic vital signs) and helps identify orthostatic hypotension, which is a meaningful drop in BP when standing. The other terms don’t capture this posture-dependent testing as precisely: static implies no change, dynamic refers to movement in general, and postural is sometimes used but orthostatic is the specific clinical term for posture-related BP changes.

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