Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- Munchausen's syndrome
- syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found
- fistula
- a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse
- acne
- an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
- privation
- a state of extreme poverty
- custody
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- difficulty
- a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
- freedom of the seas
- the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters
- association
- the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
- laryngotracheobronchitis
- inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways
- distal muscular dystrophy
- a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in between 40 and 60 years of age and is characterized by weakness and wasting of the muscles of the hands and forearms and lower legs; inheritance is autosomal dominant
- marriage of convenience
- a marriage for expediency rather than love
- hypothyroidism
- an underactive thyroid gland; a glandular disorder resulting from insufficient production of thyroid hormones
- flatulence
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- Nash equilibrium
- (game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged
- college level
- the level of education that college students are assumed to have attained
- foot-and-mouth disease
- acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs
- Parkinson's syndrome
- a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination
- MS
- a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
- cross infection
- an infection that is acquired at a hospital or other healthcare facility
- low profile
- a state of low visibility in which public notice is avoided
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