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  1. peristasis: Wiktionary
  2. peristasis: Dictionary.com
  3. Peristasis (architecture), Peristasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (peristasis)

noun:  (countable, architecture) A four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an Ancient Greek peripteros temple.
noun:  (uncountable, medicine) An inactive phase of vasoconstriction in inflammation.

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