peristasis
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Noun
peristasis (countable and uncountable, plural peristases)
- (countable, architecture) A four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an Ancient Greek peripteros temple.
- (uncountable, medicine) An inactive phase of vasoconstriction in inflammation.
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