noun
antihypertensive; blood pressure medication
Medical term for a drug that lowers high blood pressure. Used in clinical and everyday contexts.
医者は高血圧の患者に降圧剤を処方した。
The doctor prescribed an antihypertensive for the patient with high blood pressure.
降圧剤を飲み忘
Please don't forget to take your blood pressure medication.
A more formal and technical term for blood-pressure-lowering agent; less common in everyday language.
Compound of 降圧 (lowering blood pressure) + 剤 (drug, medicine).