stasis
English
Etymology
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). Doublet of stead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsteɪsɪs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪsɪs
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.
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Hyponyms
- (inactivity): equilibrium
Related terms
Translations
pathology: slackening of blood current
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