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Hypostasis

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In medical jurisprudence, (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of the blood vessels, as in varicose veins. Post-mortem hypostasis, a peculiar lividity of the cadaver.