stasis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sta=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

stasis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. sta`sis a standing still.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stasis, n. (pl. stases)
1 inactivity; stagnation; a state of equilibrium.
2 a stoppage of circulation of any of the body fluids.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk f. sta- STAND

THESAURUS

stasis

a wise passiveness, abeyance, abidingness, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, changelessness, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, entropy, equilibrium, equipoise, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, idleness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, lastingness, latency, long standing, lotus-eating, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, poise, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, steadfastness, suspense, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting