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- Ancient Greek · derived fromαἱμόστασις“styptic drug”
- English todayhemostasis
From hemo- + stasis. From Ancient Greek αἱμόστασις (haimóstasis, “styptic drug”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hemostasis
Today it means: The regulated physiological process by which the body arrests bleeding at a site of vascular injury while preserving blood fluidity and normal circulation elsewhere. Full definition →
Ancient Greek αἱμόστασις