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What does stasis mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) 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.
  2. Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
  3. (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
  4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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The monotonous hum of words out of the undertaker's mouth was slowly lulling my mind into some kind of stasis.
Multiculturalists today still caution against stasis, and still counsel constant transition and interaction between cultures.
Venous ulcers are sometimes called venous stasis ulcers because they were previously attributed to blood pooling in the veins.
It has long been understood that following haemorrhage, the consequent blood stasis prevents the formation of new blood.
When population geneticists think of stasis at all, they usually regard it as an almost trivial consequence of stabilizing selection.
With increased amounts of hepatic fatty infiltration, weight loss may actually increase portal fibrosis and bile stasis.

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