different between hypostasis vs congestion

English

Etymology

From ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hupóstasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ??? (hupó) + ?????? (stásis, “standing”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ha??p?st?s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ha??p?st?s?s/

Noun

hypostasis (countable and uncountable, plural hypostases or hypostaseis)

1. (medicine, now historical) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. [from 14th c.]
   • 1588, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, V.3:

     Physician: I have viewed your urine, and the hypostasis, / Thick and obscure, doth make the danger great.

   • 1999, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, translating Paracelsus, Opus Paramirum, in Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books 1999, p. 92:

     Thus the kidneys also have their particular excrement which is contained in it and is the hypostasis (deposit).

2. (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 (sharing a single ‘essence’). [from 16th c.]
   • 2000, Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God, Harper 2004, p. 69:

     As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (ousia) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 218:

     As a result of this verbal pact, the Trinity consists of three equal hypostaseis in one ousia: three equal Persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) sharing one Essence or Substance (Trinity or Godhead).

3. (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. [from 17th c.]
   • 1975, Mary Boyce, History of Zoroastrianism, vol. I, Brill 1975, p. 59:

     Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges".
4. (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. [from 20th c.]
5. Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

Synonyms

• subsistence

Related terms

• anhypostasia, anhypostasis
• enhypostasia, enhypostasis

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Latin congest?? (“heap, accumulation”), from conger? (“to bring together, accumulate, heap up”), formed by the root ger? (“to carry”) and the prefix con-.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?d???st.??n/, /-?d????.d???n/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /k?n?d????.d???n/

Noun

congestion (countable and uncountable, plural congestions)

1. The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
   1. An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.

   2. (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive

2. An excess or accumulation of something
   1. An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.

   2. (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
   3. edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels

Derived terms

Related terms

• congest

Translations

Further reading

• congestion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• congestion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• neognostic

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.??s.tj??/

Noun

congestion f (plural congestions)

1. congestion

Interlingua

Noun

congestion (uncountable)

1. congestion