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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

stasis
    n 1: an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid
         (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
    2: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing
       forces

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stasis \Sta"sis\ (st[=a]"s[i^]s or st[a^]s"[i^]s), n. [NL., fr.
   Gr. sta`sis a standing still.] (Physiol.)
   A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels,
   due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to
   some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of
   the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Stasis:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

a wise passiveness, abeyance, abidingness, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, changelessness, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness, duration, endurance, entropy, equilibrium, equipoise, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, idleness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, lastingness, latency, long standing, lotus-eating, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, poise, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity, solidity, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism, steadfastness, suspense, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

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