TAXIS
\tˈaksiz], \tˈaksiz], \t_ˈa_k_s_i_z]\
Definitions of TAXIS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
By Oddity Software
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In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
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Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
By Noah Webster.
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1. Reduction of a hernia or of a dislocation of any part by means of manipulation. 2. Systematic classification or orderly arrangement. 3. Tropism, the reaction of protoplasm to a stimulus, by virtue of which animals and plants are led to move or act in certain definite ways in relation to their environment; the various kinds of taxis are designated by prefixing a word noting the stimulus governing them; see chemotaxis, electrotaxis, thermotaxis, etc. A taxis is positive when the body is attracted toward the stimulus, negative when it is repelled by it.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Manual replacement of displaced parts.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
