Peristasis
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Peristasis (from the Greek peri, "around" and stasis, "a standing, setting") may be:
- Peristasis (architecture)
- Peristasis (medicine), inactive phases of vasoconstriction in inflammation.
- Peristasis (rhetoric), a passage in a speech describing circumstances related to the event in question (eg its place, time, background etc)