Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped;
2.
inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stasis
n 1: an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid
(such as blood) is slowed or stopped
2: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing
forces
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "stasis":
a wise passiveness, abeyance, abidingness, apathy, catalepsy,
catatonia, changelessness, constancy, contemplation,
contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, do-nothing policy,
do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, durability, durableness,
duration, endurance, entropy, equilibrium, equipoise, firmness,
fixedness, frozenness, hardening, idleness, immobility,
immovability, immovableness, immutability, inaction, inactivity,
indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, invariability,
invariableness, inveteracy, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
laissez-faireism, languor, lastingness, latency, long standing,
lotus-eating, meditation, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness,
noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency,
poise, policy, procrastination, quiescence, quietism, rigidity,
solidity, stability, stagnancy, stagnation, standing, standpattism,
steadfastness, suspense, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness,
vegetation, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting