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    Taxis
    • (n.) In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance. • (n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/taxis/
    
    
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    taxis
    (from the article `locomotion`) In taxis, an animal orients itself in a specific spatial relationship to a stimulus. The orientation may be simply an alteration of body position or ... Behaviour may be quite simple, as in taxis (movement toward or away from a stimulus) and kinesis (undirected respon...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/17
    
    
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    taxis
    taxis 1. Arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences. 2. In biology, oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light. 3. A manipulative surgical operation to replace parts that have terminated their natural function; that is, redu...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2093/9
    
    
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    taxis
    taxis (tăk'sis) , movement of animals either toward or away from a stimulus, such as light (phototaxis), heat (thermotaxis), chemicals (chemotaxis), gravity (geotaxis), and touch (thigmotaxis). The turning movements of plants in response to stimuli are called tropisms.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0847972.html
    
    
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    taxis
    Type: Term Pronunciation: tak′sis Definitions: 1. Reduction of a hernia or of a dislocation of any part by means of manipulation. 2. Systematic classification or orderly arrangement. 3. The reaction of protoplasm to a stimulus, by virtue of which animals and plants are led to move or act in ce...
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=89776
    
    
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    taxis
    In botany and microbiology, the movement of a single cell, such as a bacterium, protozoan, single-celled alga, or gamete, in response to an external stimulus. A movement directed towards the stimulus is described as positive taxis, and away from it as negative taxis. The alga Chlamydomonas, f...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007082.html
    
    
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    taxis
    the movement of a whole organism in response to a directional stimulus. Thus geotaxis is movement in response to gravity; phototaxis is movement in response to light; chemotaxis is movement in response to a chemical substance.
    Found op http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm
    
    
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    taxis
    The behavior when an animal turns and moves toward or away from an external stimulus (pl.: taxes).
    Found op http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookglosst.html
    
    
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    Taxis
    (1) battle order; (2) military unit; regiment.
    Found op http://s_van_dorst.tripod.com/Ancient_Warfare/Greece/greek_glossary.html
    
    
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    Taxis
    ['A Language Facility for Designing Database-Intensive Applications', J. Mylopoulos et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 5(2):185-207 (June 1980)].
    Found op http://foldoc.org/Taxis
    
    
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    taxis
    1) Airport line 2) Airport lineup 3) Approaches a terminal 4) City cars 5) Downtown rides 6) Movement toward or away from a stimulation 7) Occupants of some stands 8) Prepares for takeoff 9) Prepares for takeoff, say 10) Prepares ...
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/taxis/1
    
    

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