Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- anarthria
- partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system
- callus
- bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone
- skin tumor
- a neoplasm originating in the epidermis
- obligation
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- pleuralgia
- pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs
- subnormality
- the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence)
- barrenness
- the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
- pancarditis
- inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium)
- continuity
- uninterrupted connection or union
- qui vive
- condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- jitters
- extreme nervousness
- onychosis
- any disease or disorder of the nails
- impacted tooth
- a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally
- embryonal carcinoma
- malignant neoplasm of the testis
- playing field
- the circumstances under which competition occurs
- impropriety
- the condition of being improper
- disarrangement
- a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted
- erythroblastosis fetalis
- severe anemia in newborn babies; the result of Rh incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood; typically occurs when the child of an Rh-negative mother inherits Rh-positive blood from the father; can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis
- tabes
- wasting of the body during a chronic disease
- adenoma
- a benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin
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