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
\STAY-sis; STAS-is\, noun; plural stases \STAY-seez; STAS-eez\: 1 A state of balance, equilibrium, or stagnation 2 Stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid
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
Stasis is a state in which something remains the same, and does not change or develop. Rock'n'roll had entered a period of stasis. a state or period in which there is no change or development (, from histasthai )
inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped