stasis

Multiple Entries:
  stasis    -stasis  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stasis /ˈsteɪsɪs, ˈsta-/

▶noun

• 1 formal or technical a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium.

• 2 Medicine a stoppage of flow of a body fluid.

– origin C18: mod. L., from Gk, lit. ‘standing, stoppage’, from sta-, base of histanai ‘to stand’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-stasis/ˈstasɪs/

▶combining form (pl. -stases) Physiology slowing down; stopping: haemostasis.

– derivatives
-static combining form.

– origin from Gk stasis ‘standing, stoppage’.