peristasis

English

Noun

peristasis (countable and uncountable, plural peristases)

  1. (countable, architecture) A four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an Ancient Greek peripteros temple.
  2. (uncountable, medicine) An inactive phase of vasoconstriction in inflammation.

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