hypostasis

  1. Noun.  (context, medicine) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. (defdate, 14th-19th c.) .
  2. Noun.  (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 ‘essence’). (defdate, from 16th c.) .
  3. Noun.  (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. (defdate, from 17th c.) .
  4. Noun.  (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. (defdate, from 20th c.) .

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