STATUS

(Lat.), n.m. Stat(stast)'u3s(u4s). Gen., stat'us. From stare, to stand. Fr., etat. Ger., Zustand, Beschaffenheit. A condition, a stage; particularly (of old writers) that stage of a disease in which, having reached its height, it remains stationary before it begins to decline. [A, 244.] S. arthritic us. Nervous or gastric disturbances due to imperfect or masked gout. [A, 326 (a, 34).] S. cribrosus. See ETAT crible. S. eclamptic us. The state or condition of an individual affected with eclampsia, [a, 34.] S. epileptic us. Fr., etat de mal epileptique. 1. That state in which *an epileptic has a number of fits in rapid and often regular succe ion, so that he does not become conscious between them. The condition is often a ociated with fever and frequently causes death. 2. See HYSTERO-EPILEPSY. S. gastric us. See GASTRIC ISM (2d def.). S. hysteric us. The hysterical state or condition. [D.] S. nervosus. See NEURASTHENIA. S. pituitosus. See GLUTINOSUM spontaneum. S. praesens. The condition of an individual at the time a note is made of it (used generally of his condition when he first comes under observation as a patient), [a, 34.] S. typhosus. The asthenic, delirious condition observed in typhoid and certain other fevers; characterized by great prostration, subsultus tendinum, floccitatio, feeble, frequent pulse, low muttering delirium or coma vigil, and dryne with brown color of the tongue. [B; a, 34.] [s. 534]