Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- retinopathy
- a disease of the retina that can result in loss of vision
- license
- excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
- shade
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- hopefulness
- full of hope
- visual agnosia
- inability to recognize or interpret objects in the visual field
- orchidalgia
- pain in the testes
- manhood
- the state of being a man; manly qualities
- anabiosis
- suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns
- acousma
- illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds
- panencephalitis
- diffuse inflammation of the entire brain
- behavior
- the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- arteriosclerosis
- sclerosis of the arterial walls
- frambesia
- an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
- lithiasis
- the formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ
- blastomycosis
- any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces
- upset
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- melanosis
- a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin)
- ophthalmitis
- severe conjunctivitis
- carbuncle
- an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
- kuru
- a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
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