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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Taxis \Tax"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or
arrangement, fr. ta`ssein to arrange.]
1. (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an
intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.
--Dunglison.
[1913 Webster]
2. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar,
etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. a reflexive movement by a motile organism by which it
moves or orients itself in relation to some source of
stimulation; as, chemotaxis, the motion toward or away
from gradients of certain chemical compounds.
[PJC]