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What (who) is taxis - definition
DIRECTED MOVEMENT OF A MOTILE CELL OR ORGANISM IN RESPONSE TO AN EXTERNAL STIMULUS
Anemotaxis; Orientation movement; Barotaxis; Hydrotaxis; Thigmotaxis; Klinotaxis; Klinotaxes; Tropotaxis; Tropotaxes; Telotaxis; Telotaxes; Thigmotactic; Taxy; Mnemotaxis; Negative geotaxis; Negative phonotaxis; Phonotaxis; Aerotactic; Mnenotaxis; Directed motility
taxis
['taks?s]
¦ noun (plural taxes 'taksi:z)
1. Surgery the restoration of displaced bones or organs by manual pressure alone.
2. Biology a motion or orientation of a cell, organism, or part in response to an external stimulus. Compare with kinesis.
3. Linguistics the systematic arrangement of linguistic units in linear sequence.
Origin
C18: from Gk, lit. 'arrangement', from tassein 'arrange'.
Taxis
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5(2):185-207 (June 1980) ].
Taxis
·noun Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
II. Taxis ·add. ·noun In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, ·etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
Wikipedia
Taxis
A taxis (from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis) 'arrangement, order'; PL taxes ) is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioural responses. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that in the case of taxis, the organism has motility and demonstrates guided movement towards or away from the stimulus source. It is sometimes distinguished from a kinesis, a non-directional change in activity in response to a stimulus.
Examples of use of taxis
1. Taxis The Department for International Development has spent 526,000 on taxis in the past year, junior minister Gareth Thomas revealed.
2. He‘d take invoices of private travelers in taxis.
3. There are the taxis discharging and picking up passengers.
4. Yesterday, taxis and other vehicles were in great demand.
5. "Just recently, I stopped over five taxis in Al Ghusais.