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hypostatic

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[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 51Թ Forms

  • hypostatically adverb
  • nonhypostatic adjective
  • nonhypostatical adjective
  • nonhypostatically adverb
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51Թ 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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Itislikely he will die of hypostatic pneumonia.

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When the attack is more severe hypostatic congestion is very likely to supervene.

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True pneumonia is of infrequent occurrence as compared with that of hypostatic congestion of the lungs, but it nevertheless does occur, and may be of either the catarrhal or croupous variety.

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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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