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stasis

[stey-sis, stas-is]

noun, plural sta·ses

[stey-seez, stas-eez] .

the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces.

Pathology. stagnation in the flow of any of the fluids of the body, as of the blood in an inflamed area or the intestinal contents proximal to an obstruction.

Origin:
1735–45; < Greek stásis state of standing, equivalent to sta- (stem of histánai to make stand; see stand) + -sis -sis

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Example Sentences

Stasis is by no means the only way to eliminate the feedback loop.

Universities evolve over time and quite naturally undergo periods of rapid change, punctuated by slower growth or even stasis.

And the fact that it did not produce greater change says much about the stasis of the island's politics.

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Stasis is by no means the only way to eliminate the feedback loop.

Universities evolve over time and quite naturally undergo periods of rapid change, punctuated by slower growth or even stasis.

And the fact that it did not produce greater change says much about the stasis of the island's politics.

That's because economic growth and human welfare must trump environmental stasis and ecosystem welfare.

Kuletski's photographs of these mines depict a cool underground outpost whose inhabitants appear to lie in eerie stasis.

Penn achieved a calm, clear stasis and a spare but undeniable voluptuousness.

Suddenly, stasis and convention were thrown out of the window.

Just a speeder bike, a couple of tiny drones, and a stasis capsule.

Its thoughtfulness reduces it, occasionally, to mere stasis.

Boards have developed in leaps punctuated by periods of stasis.

The idea of the cusp between chaos and stasis is such a useful idea to artists.

The post-election theme for women in politics is stasis.

What struck me was the overlap with complexity theory, and how a system in stasis wil start to cycle/bifurcate as stress goes up.

But taking a look at turnover in the management ranks and stasis on the board of directors provides a clue.

Furthermore, two immediate things make change a likelier outcome than stasis.

The results are scenes that make little sense, and a staging that is remarkable for its stasis.

If there is no negotiation and an imposed solution will not work, the alternative is either violence or stasis.

Their expectations for participation in economic and political life are frustrated by political stasis and debilitating greed.

Because of the presence of a nuclear deterrent, the cold war is one of stasis.

On the other hand the areas under the honest officials languished in stasis.

Depression, drugs and professional stasis commingle in.

It symbolizes the end of the period of lightning advance and the beginning of the period of nasty stasis.

Japan is suffering its eighth year in a row of economic and political stasis.

Because it induces a kindof stasis in them where they literally will never finish anything,.

But there is an equally befuddled zone of psychic stasis that occurs in the days before an ill family member dies.

Angola is in play, after a period of protracted stasis and despair.

He played spatial illusion as if it were an accordion, expanding and contracting it in a mesmerizing play of stasis and movement.

First, advocates for sustainable development have used the concept's ambiguity as a licence to embrace stasis and autonomy.

They railed against fear, conformity, stasis and self-involvement.

Stasis and dogmatism were seen as recipes for stagnation and collapse.

Depending on one's vantage point, performers' backs are all too often seen, in stasis.

Some images juxtapose motion and stasis to great effect.

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World English Dictionary

stasis (ˈsteɪsɪs)

—n
1.	pathol a stagnation in the normal flow of bodily fluids, such as the blood or urine
2.	literature a state or condition in which there is no action or progress; static situation: dramatic stasis

[C18: via New Latin from Greek: a standing, from histanai to cause to stand; related to Latin stāre to stand]

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Word Origin & History

stasis

1745, from Medical L., from Gk. stasis "a standing still," related to statos "placed," verbal adj. of histemi "cause to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

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Medical Dictionary

stasis sta·sis (stā'sĭs, stās'ĭs)
n. pl. sta·ses (stā'sēz, stās'ēz)
Stoppage of the normal flow of a body substance, as of blood through an artery or of intestinal contents through the bowels.

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