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hypostatic

[ hahy-puh-stat-ik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
  2. Theology. pertaining to or constituting a distinct personal being or substance.
  3. Medicine/Medical. being in a condition of hypostasis.
  4. Genetics. (of a nonallelic gene) masked by another gene.


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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··ٲ··· adverb
  • ԴDz···ٲ· adjective
  • ԴDz···ٲ·· adjective
  • non···ٲ··· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hypostatic1

1670–80; < Greek Dzٲپó pertaining to substance, equivalent to hypostat ( ó ) placed under, giving support ( hypo- hypo- + sta- stand + -tos verbal adjective suffix) + -ikos -ic
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What happens to this notion of goodness and purity when the common and the royal come together in a single person, in a Burke's Peerage version of the hypostatic union?

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It is likely he will die of hypostatic pneumonia.

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The term hypostatic oedema is often used to designate the association of oedema and inflammation, the former caused by the latter, and to indicate the effect of gravitation in the localization of oedema from the general causes already mentioned.

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Hypostatic congestion and infarction of the lungs are not uncommonly found after death from typhoid fever, and less frequently the lesions of pneumonia.

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Other morbid conditions of the respiratory organs which may occur as complications of typhoid fever are oedema, infarction, hypostatic congestion of the lungs, emphysema, and pneumothorax.

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