| ANASTASIS | • anastasis n. A recovery from a debilitating condition, especially irradiation of human tissue. • anastasis n. Rebirth. • anastasis n. (Christianity) resurrection, especially the resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
| ANTIPERISTASIS | • antiperistasis n. (Philosophy) The heightening of the force of an opposing process. • ANTIPERISTASIS n. (archaic) opposition or resistance. |
| APOCATASTASIS | • apocatastasis n. (Rare) restoration, renovation, reestablishment, particularly… • APOCATASTASIS n. the state of being restored to a previous condition, esp. the final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah. |
| BACTERIOSTASIS | • bacteriostasis n. (Biology) A phase in which microbial organisms are prevented from undergoing further cell growth, without… • BACTERIOSTASIS n. the inhibition of the growth of bacteria without destruction. |
| CATASTASIS | • catastasis n. In classical drama, the third and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe. • catastasis n. (Rhetoric) The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed. • CATASTASIS n. the part of drama where action is at its height. |
| CHOLESTASIS | • cholestasis n. (Pathology) The suppression of the flow of bile caused by an obstruction associated with the liver. • CHOLESTASIS n. a checking or failure of bile flow. |
| DIASTASIS | • diastasis n. (Medicine) A separation between two parts, such as separation of a bone, without fracture. • diastasis n. The property of being diastatic, i.e. having germinated. • DIASTASIS n. the separation of two parts of a bone without fracture, esp. of an epiphysis from a long bone. |
| ECSTASIS | • ecstasis n. Alternative form of ekstasis. • ECSTASIS n. ecstasy. |
| EPISTASIS | • epistasis n. (Genetics) The modification of the expression of a gene by another unrelated one. • EPISTASIS n. the suppression of a gene by another non-allelomorphic gene. |
| HAEMOSTASIS | • haemostasis n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of hemostasis. • hæmostasis n. Alternative form of hemostasis. • HAEMOSTASIS n. stoppage of bleeding or the circulation, also HAEMOSTASIA, HEMOSTASIA, HEMOSTASIS. |
| HEMOSTASIS | • hemostasis n. (Medicine, countable, uncountable) The process of keeping blood inside a damaged vessel to stop bleeding. • HEMOSTASIS n. stoppage of bleeding or circulation, also HAEMOSTASIA, HAEMOSTASIS, HEMOSTASIA. |
| HOMEOSTASIS | • homeostasis n. (Physiology) The ability of a system or living organism to adjust its internal environment to maintain… • homeostasis n. Such a dynamic equilibrium or balance. • HOMEOSTASIS n. a tendency towards health or stable physical conditions, also HOMOEOSTASIS. |
| HOMOEOSTASIS | • homoeostasis n. Alternative spelling of homeostasis. • homœostasis n. Obsolete spelling of homeostasis. • HOMOEOSTASIS n. a tendency towards health or stable physical conditions, also HOMEOSTASIS. |
| HYPOSTASIS | • hypostasis n. (Medicine, now historical) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. • hypostasis n. (Theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his… • hypostasis n. (Philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. |
| ICONOSTASIS | • iconostasis n. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A wall of icons between the sanctuary and the nave in a church of eastern Christendom. • ICONOSTASIS n. (Greek) in Eastern churches, a screen separating the sanctuary from the nave, also ICONOSTAS. |
| METASTASIS | • metastasis n. A change in nature, form, or quality. • metastasis n. (Medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically… • metastasis n. (Figurative) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer. |
| STASIS | • stasis n. (Pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat… • stasis n. (Figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. • stasis n. (Science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does… |