ALL meanings of hypostasis
hy·pos·ta·sis
H h - noun hypostasis The accumulation of fluid or blood in the lower parts of the body or organs under the influence of gravity, as occurs in cases of poor circulation or after death. 1
- noun plural hypostasis Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle. 1
- noun plural hypostasis Theology. one of the three real and distinct substances in the one undivided substance or essence of God. a person of the Trinity. the one personality of Christ in which His two natures, human and divine, are united. 1
- noun plural hypostasis Medicine/Medical. the accumulation of blood or its solid components in parts of an organ or body due to poor circulation. such sedimentation, as in a test tube. 1
- noun hypostasis (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (medicine) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. 0
- noun hypostasis (theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (comprising a single ‘essence’). 0
- noun hypostasis (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. 0
- noun hypostasis (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. 0
- noun hypostasis Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation. 0
- noun hypostasis the essential nature of a substance as opposed to its attributes 0
- noun hypostasis any of the three persons of the Godhead, together constituting the Trinity 0
- noun hypostasis the one person of Christ in which the divine and human natures are united 0
- noun hypostasis the accumulation of blood in an organ or part, under the influence of gravity as the result of poor circulation 0
- noun hypostasis the masking or suppression of a gene by another gene that is not its allele 0
- noun hypostasis a deposit or sediment 0
- noun hypostasis a settling of blood in the lower parts of the body as a result of a slowing down of the blood flow 0
- noun hypostasis the underlying, essential nature of a thing 0
- noun hypostasis the unique nature of the one God 0
- noun hypostasis any of the three persons of the Trinity, each person having the divine nature fully and equally 0
- noun hypostasis the union of the wholly divine nature and of a wholly human nature in the one person of Jesus Christ 0