Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- thermal pollution
- harm to lakes and rivers resulting from the release of excessive waste heat into them
- boom
- a state of economic prosperity
- Pax Romana
- the Roman peace; the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empire
- light
- having abundant light or illumination
- corrosion
- a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action
- gloom
- a state of partial or total darkness
- head blight
- a blight of the heads of cereals
- sex-linked disorder
- any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones
- anemic anoxia
- anoxia resulting from a decreased concentration of hemoglobin
- growing pains
- pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
- hyperchromic anaemia
- anemia characterized by an increase in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin
- kernicterus
- an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage
- hookworm
- infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin
- myelomeningocele
- a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation
- Paget's disease
- a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities
- renal insufficiency
- insufficient excretion of wastes by the kidneys
- noli-me-tangere
- a cancerous ulcer of soft tissue and bone
- convulsion
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
- grogginess
- a groggy state resulting from weariness
- essential thrombocytopenia
- the primary form of thrombocytopenia (rather than a shortage of platelets caused by other conditions such as tuberculosis or chemical suppression of bone marrow etc.)
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