Definition of stases:
(n) :
(figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
(n) :
(science fiction, uncountable) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
(n) :
(pathology) 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.
(n) :
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.