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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.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.

A forcible of bones without fracture.

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

Stoppage of the mences.

A spiritual change, as during baptism.

A political union, confederation, or league. [R.] Burke.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

ariously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle.

Same as Menostasis.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.

f the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." Bk. of Com. Prayer.

Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.

Same as Hypostasis, 2. Hooker.

Same as Hypostasis, 2.