Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stasis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stasis \Sta"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stasis
n 1: an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such
as blood) is slowed or stopped
2: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing
forces
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