an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
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inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
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Stasis \Sta"sis\ (st[=a]"s[i^]s or st[a^]s"[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sta`sis a standing still.] (Physiol.) 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.
At least, if banks were required to do that they would have nothing to lend, corporations and households would have a hard time borrowing for future activities; the economy would probably retreat to the precapitalist stasis of a landed aristocracy.
The other, a set of five low-budget stories about cab drivers, is a comedy of stasis masquerading as a comedy of movement. In Far And Away Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman leave the old country to find a home in the new.