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| hypostasis | |
| 1. n. (medicine, now historical) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. |  |
| 2. n. (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 (comprising a single ‘es | |
| 3. n. (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. | |
| 4. n. (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. | |
| 5. n. Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation. | |
