stasis

English

/ˈsteɪsɪs/

noun
Definitions
  • (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.
  • (scifi) 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.

Etymology

Root from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (stand, stay, place, put, be standing, set, stand up).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*steh₂-

Gloss

stand, stay, place, put, be standing, set, stand up

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Kanji

立

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