physical condition

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physical condition - the condition or state of the body or bodily functions physiological condition, physiological state wakefulness - a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world; "consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar" condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" bloodiness - the state of being bloody incompatibility - (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue) 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" sopor, sleep - a torpid state resembling deep 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 physical condition of having 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 muscularity - the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle 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 potence, potency - the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse pathological state - a physical condition that is caused by disease disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"