hypostasis

n., pl., -ses (-sēz').

1. Philosophy. The substance, essence, or underlying reality.
2. Christianity.
   1. Any of the persons of the Trinity.
   2. The essential person of Jesus in which his human and divine natures are united.
3. Something that has been hypostatized.
4. 1. A settling of solid particles in a fluid.
   2. Something that settles to the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
5. Medicine. The settling of blood in the lower part of an organ or the body as a result of decreased blood flow.
6. Genetics. A condition in which the action of one gene conceals or suppresses the action of another gene that is not its allele but that affects the same part or biochemical process in an organism.

[Late Latin, from Greek hupostasis : hupo-, hypo- + stasis, a standing.]

hypostatic hy'po·stat'ic (hī'pə-stăt'ĭk) or hy'po·stat'i·cal adj.
hypostatically hy'po·stat'i·cal·ly adv.

(Greek, standing under) The underlying subject or substance that supports attributes; matter without form. This is a concept subject to repeated fatal criticism, and repeated resurrection.

Poor or stagnant circulation in a dependent part of the body or an organ.

/hi PAHS ta sis/
the substance or essential nature (of a person); an underlying principle
<anger is just the hypostasis of drama, the digest of drama>

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