stasis

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Noun

1. 1
   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. 2
   Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
3. 3
   A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
4. 4
   One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.