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Taxis vs. Kinesis — What's the Difference?

Taxis vs. Kinesis — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Taxis and Kinesis

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Taxis

A taxis (plural taxes , from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement') is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioural responses.

Kinesis

Movement or activity of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light.

Taxis

(Biology) The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.

Kinesis

(biology) The movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.

Taxis

(Medicine) The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.
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Kinesis

(physics) Any energy that creates/controls movement.

Taxis

(biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.

Kinesis

(philosophy) The force driving life forward.

Taxis

(medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.

Kinesis

A movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation

Taxis

(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.

Taxis

Arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar

Taxis

(historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

Taxis

Plural of taxi

Taxis

Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.

Taxis

In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.

Taxis

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.

Taxis

A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism

Taxis

The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part

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