Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- intermittent claudication
- lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest
- union
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- hepatitis B
- an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids
- retinoblastoma
- malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells
- kelter
- in working order
- pneumonoconiosis
- chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles
- inadequacy
- a lack of competence
- chronic glossitis
- glossitis with atrophy of tongue tissue; sometimes accompanies pernicious anemia
- facilitation
- the condition of being made easy (or easier)
- full employment
- the economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage rate for their type of labor is employed
- autoimmune disorder
- any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues
- laryngostenosis
- abnormal narrowing of the larynx
- deforestation
- the state of being clear of trees
- cold
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
- dankness
- unpleasant wetness
- immurement
- the state of being imprisoned
- hallucinosis
- a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations
- sphacelus
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- pinprick
- a minor annoyance
- incompatibility
- (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
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