'Taxis' definitions:
Definition of 'taxis'
(from WordNet)
noun
A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
noun
The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
Definition of 'Taxis'
From: GCIDE
- Taxis \Tax"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or arrangement, fr. ta`ssein to arrange.]
- 1. (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [PJC]