Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
- injury
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
- ascendant
- position or state of being dominant or in control
- schistorrhachis
- a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis
- double vision
- visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects
- cruciality
- a state of critical urgency
- mutism
- the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak
- civil death
- the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment
- iridokeratitis
- inflammation of the iris and cornea of the eye
- LE
- a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
- sweet-potato ring rot
- disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot
- birth trauma
- emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness
- destruction
- a final state
- cardiovascular disease
- a disease of the heart or blood vessels
- crud
- an ill-defined bodily ailment
- astigmia
- (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people
- vesicoureteral reflux
- a backflow of urine from the bladder into the ureter
- secureness
- the state of freedom from fear or danger
- Lyme arthritis
- an acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick
- galactocele
- a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands)
- common-law marriage
- a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony
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