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)