stasis.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Where this word comes from
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
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