Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- clubbing
- a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease
- congestion
- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
- cyanide poisoning
- poisoning due to ingesting or inhaling cyanide; common in smoke from fires and in industrial chemicals
- animal disease
- a disease that typically does not affect human beings
- stomachache
- an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region
- valley fever
- an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules
- vaccina
- a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar
- quality of life
- your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)
- fibrocystic breast disease
- the presence of one or more cysts in a breast
- housemaid's knee
- swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling)
- hamartoma
- a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ
- decline
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
- nuclear cataract
- a cataract that affects the nucleus of the lens
- BPH
- enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process
- accent
- special importance or significance
- bean blight
- a blight of bean plants
- mechanisation
- the condition of having a highly technical implementation
- pay dirt
- a profitable success
- angiopathy
- any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts
- dermatosis
- disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation)
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