Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Stasis

Stasis (stā"sis o stas"is) , noun

[New Latin, from Greek sta`sis a standing still.]

(Physiology) 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.