Taxis refers to the movement of an organism towards or away from a stimulus, order or arrangement, or the manual repositioning of a body part.
Taxis se refiere al movimiento de un organismo hacia o lejos de un estímulo, orden o clasificación, o a la reposición manual de una parte del cuerpo.
| Front | taxis \TAK-sis\ |
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| Back | noun 1. Movement of an organism towards or away from a stimulus. 2. Order, arrangement, or classification. 3. The manual repositioning of a displaced body part to its normal position, in a case of hernia, for example. [From Greek taxis (arrangement, order), from tassein (to arrange). 1. The word tropism is usually applied to plants. 2. The word for a public vehicle, taxi, is unrelated. A taxi is one which taxes, etymologically speaking. It's short for taximeter, the name of the device that calculates the fare.] "I believe every action an insect makes is due to a reflex, a taxis or a tropism." - Poppy Adams; The Sister; Anchor; 2009. "Dionysius wanted to see the entire cosmos as a taxis, in the sense of a hierarchy." - James H. Charlesworth; Jesus and Archaeology; Wm. B. Eerdmans; 2006. |
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