Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- pink elephants
- any visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking
- thrombasthenia
- a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results
- full employment
- the economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage rate for their type of labor is employed
- recession
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- gigantism
- excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
- prominence
- the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- depression
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- health hazard
- hazard to the health of those exposed to it
- clear-air turbulence
- strong turbulence in an otherwise cloudless region that subjects aircraft to violent updrafts or downdrafts
- insecurity
- the state of being subject to danger or injury
- hog cholera
- highly infectious virus disease of swine
- Darier's disease
- a rare hereditary condition marked by dark crusted patches (sometimes containing pus)
- thing
- a special situation
- hugger-mugger
- a state of confusion
- constraint
- the state of being physically constrained
- pang
- a mental pain or distress
- psychogenic fugue
- dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
- pleurisy
- inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)
- Saint Ignatius' itch
- a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments
- pilar cyst
- a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
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