taxis
(noun) the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
taxis
(noun) a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
Source: WordNet® 3.1
taxis (plural taxes)
(biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
(medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
(historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
Distinguished from tropism in that in a tropism, the organism is not motile, and simply turns or grows towards or away from stimulus (e.g, plants, fungi), while in a taxis, the organism has motility and moves towards or away from stimulus (e.g, bacteria, animals). Distinguished from a kinesis in that a kinesis is non-directional movement, while a taxis is directional.
taxis
plural of taxi
taxis
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taxi
Source: Wiktionary
Tax"is, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Surg.)
Definition: Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
