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hy⋅pos⋅ta⋅sis

  [hahy-pos-tuh-sis, hi-]
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–noun, plural -ses  [-seez] .
1. Metaphysics.
a. something that stands under and supports; foundation.
b. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
2. Theology.
a. one of the three real and distinct substances in the one undivided substance or essence of God.
b. a person of the Trinity.
c. the one personality of Christ in which His two natures, human and divine, are united.
3. Medicine/Medical.
a. the accumulation of blood or its solid components in parts of an organ or body due to poor circulation.
b. such sedimentation, as in a test tube.
Origin:
1580–90; < LL < Gk hypóstasis that which settles at the bottom; substance, nature, essence, equiv. to hypo- hypo- + stásis standing, stasis
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hy·pos·ta·sis   (hī-pŏs'tə-sĭs)   
n.   pl. hy·pos·ta·ses (-sēz')

  1. Philosophy The substance, essence, or underlying reality.

  2. Christianity

    1. Any of the persons of the Trinity.

    2. The essential person of Jesus in which his human and divine natures are united.

    3. A settling of solid particles in a fluid.

    4. Something that settles to the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

  3. Something that has been hypostatized.

    1. A settling of solid particles in a fluid.

    2. Something that settles to the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

  5. Medicine The settling of blood in the lower part of an organ or the body as a result of decreased blood flow.

  6. Genetics A condition in which the action of one gene conceals or suppresses the action of another gene that is not its allele but that affects the same part or biochemical process in an organism.


[Late Latin, from Greek hupostasis : hupo-, hypo- + stasis, a standing; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
hy'po·stat'ic (hī'pə-stāt'ĭk), hy'po·stat'i·cal adj., hy'po·stat'i·cal·ly adv.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hy·pos·ta·sis
Pronunciation: hI-'päs-t&-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural hy·pos·ta·ses /-"sEz/
1 : the settling of blood in relatively lower parts of an organ or the body due to impaired or absent circulationhypostasis>
2 : failure of a gene to produce its usual effect when coupled with another gene that is epistatic toward it
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hypostasis hy·pos·ta·sis (hī-pŏs'tə-sĭs)
n. pl. hy·pos·ta·ses (-sēz')

  1. A settling of solid particles in a fluid.

  2. Sediment.

  3. See hypostatic congestion.

  4. A condition in which the action of one gene conceals or suppresses the action of another gene that is not its allele but that affects the same part or biochemical process in an organism.

hy'po·stat'ic (hī'pə-stāt'ĭk) adj.

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