different between hypostatic vs epistasis

English

Etymology

From mediaeval Latin hypostaticus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (hupostatikós), from ????????? (hupostatós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?p??stæt?k/

Adjective

hypostatic (comparative more hypostatic, superlative most hypostatic)

1. (theology) Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, "A Præface Introductory"

     The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.

2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Pearson to this entry?)

3. (medicine) Pertaining to hypostasis; depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting.

   hypostatic congestion, due to setting of blood by gravitation

4. (genetics) Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (epístasis, “stopping”), from ???????? (ephíst?mi, “stop”), from ??- (eph-) + ?????? (híst?mi, “make to stand”). The use in genetics was coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1909 in his book Mendel's Principles of Heredity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?st?s?s/

Noun

epistasis (countable and uncountable, plural epistases)

1. (genetics) The modification of the expression of a gene by another unrelated one.

Related terms

• epistatic
• hypostatic