taxis
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Noun (2)taxes
- a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organismType of reaction, responseKinds chemotaxis
- the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body partType of operation, surgery
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: NL., fr. Gr. τάξις a division or arrangement, fr. τάσσειν to arrange.
1. Surgery Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. Dunglison, Robley
2. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
3. a reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it moves or orients itself in relation to some source of stimulation; as, chemotaxis, the motion toward or away from gradients of certain chemical compounds.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors
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