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What does stasis mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) 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. Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
  3. (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
  4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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Even getting to planets or moons relatively close to us requires passengers to spend months or years in some form of cryogenic stasis.
Venous ulcers are sometimes called venous stasis ulcers because they were previously attributed to blood pooling in the veins.
The crystals float in suspended stasis, with each passing second they start to expand and glow.
The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
In the shark universe of business, particularly the crowded Web field, stasis means death.
The monotonous hum of words out of the undertaker's mouth was slowly lulling my mind into some kind of stasis.

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