-staxia

DEFINITION of -staxia

dripping, oozing (of blood) see also: -rrhea

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ETYMOLOGY of -staxia

greek

Component	Origin	Meaning
-staxia / -staxis	Greek στάσις (stasis), from ἵστημι (histēmi)	“dripping,” “oozing,” “flow of blood” — condition-denoting suffix referring to discharge or stagnation of blood

The suffix entered English in the 1640s as epistaxis (noun), borrowed from Late Latin epistaxis, from Greek ἐπίσταξις (epistaxis) — literally “a standing flow” (epi- “upon” + stasis “dripping, oozing”). The adjective hemostatic appeared in the 1720s, and the noun stasis in its modern medical sense in the 1840s. The root stasis (“standing, dripping”) connects -staxia to the entire flow and discharge suffixes: epistaxis (epi- + staxis $\to$ oozing of blood from the nose), hemostasis (hemo- + stasis $\to$ arrest of blood flow/bleeding), and venous stasis (ven- + stasis $\to$ stagnation of venous blood). The condition-denoting suffix -staxia is productive in otolaryngology, surgery, and hematology: e.g., epistaxis, hemostasis, hemostatic, venous stasis, and cardiac stasis.

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