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Webster 1913 Edition
Stasis
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Sta′sis
(stā′sĭs or stăs′ĭs)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
στάσισ
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.