staza
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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis).
Pronunciation
Noun
staza f
- (pathology) stasis (slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls)
- (colloquial, medicine) tourniquet (tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb)
- Synonyms: opaska uciskowa, manszeta
Declension
Declension of staza
Further reading
- staza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stьdza (“path”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *stiga, from Proto-Indo-European *stigʰ-eh₂.
Noun
stàza f (Cyrillic spelling ста̀за)
Declension
Declension of staza