state

(stat) [1,. sta’tus]. Condition or situation; status; also the crisis or turning-point of an attack of disease. an electrotonic s., the condition which obtains in a nerve near the anode during the pa age of a continuous current. cat electrotonic s., the condition of a nerve near the cathode during the pa age of an electric current. hypnagogic s., that state of light slumber intermediate between sleep and waking which occurs just as one is falling to sleep or as one is awakening. hypnoidal s., a condition in which portions of unrecognized past experience come up into consciousne from the subconscious life. hypnoidic s., a state in which more or le connected experiences of the past come up into consciousne from the subconscious state. hypnoleptic s., a state occurring between two experiences of double personality. typhoid s., a condition of great muscular weakne and stupor, with dry, brown tongue, sordes on the teeth, muttering delirium, feeble pulse, involuntary discharge of feces and urine: seen in certain wasting diseases, as typhoid and other fevers.