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Webster 1913 Edition
Stasis
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Sta′sis
(stā′sĭs or stăs′ĭs)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
στάσισ
a standing still.] (Physiol.)
A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
Definition 2024
Stasis
stasis
stasis
English
Noun
stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)
- (pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
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- (inactivity): equilibrium
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pathology: slackening of blood current
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inactivity