Stasis

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Compare stasis with other words:

stasis vs. staticity

stagnate vs. stasis

stagnation vs. stasis

estivate vs. stasis

equilibrium vs. stasis

movement vs. stasis

stability vs. stasis

freezing vs. stasis

capillary vs. stasis

resistance vs. stasis

lessening vs. stasis

current vs. stasis

arrest vs. stasis

slackening vs. stasis

stasis vs. station

stasis vs. static

flux vs. stasis