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sist (medicine)


sist


1. To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.

2. To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court. "Some, however, have preposterously sisted Nature as the first or generative principle." (Sir W. Hamilton)

Origin: L. Sistere to bring to a stand, to stop.

Source: Websters Dictionary


azygos continuation (medicine)


azygos continuation


(of the inferior vena cava), a congenital anomaly in which the infrahepatic portion of the vena cava fails to form, and venous drainage of the lower body is maintained through a persistent right supracardinal vein, which becomes a large azygos vein.