stasis
/ˈsteɪsɪs/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
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