Associations to the word «Taxis»

Wiktionary

TAXIS, noun. (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
TAXIS, noun. (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
TAXIS, noun. (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
TAXIS, noun. Arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
TAXIS, noun. Plural of taxi

Dictionary definition

TAXIS, noun. A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism.
TAXIS, noun. The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats