state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"

wakefulness - a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world

incompatibility - (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

homeostasis - metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes

acathexia - an inability to retain bodily secretions

angiotelectasia - dilation and enlargement of arterioles

torpidity, torpor - a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor"

agalactia, agalactosis - a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered

anaesthesia, anesthesia - loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness

anhidrosis, anhydrosis - failure of the sweat glands

arousal - a state of heightened physiological activity

sleep, slumber - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

sleep - a torpid state resembling sleep

drive - a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire

elastosis - breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue)

flatulence, flatulency, gas - a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal

flection, flexion, flexure - the state of being flexed (as of a joint)

estrus, oestrus, rut, heat - applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus - applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus

hypercapnia, hypercarbia - the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood

acapnia, hypocapnia - a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing

asphyxia - a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas

oxygen debt - a cumulative deficit of oxygen resulting from intense exercise; the deficit must be made up when the body returns to rest

hyperthermia, hyperthermy - abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)

normothermia - normal body temperature

hypothermia - subnormal body temperature

myasthenia - any muscular weakness

infertility, sterility - the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate

false pregnancy, pseudocyesis - physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant

maternity, pregnancy, gestation - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus

rigor mortis - temporary stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity occurring after death

vitalisation, vitalization - the state of being vitalized and filled with life

good health, healthiness - the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease

fecundity, fertility - the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring

potency - the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

cellularity - the state of having cells

addiction, habituation, dependence, dependency - being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

suspended animation - a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death; usually resulting from asphyxia