Taxis /(?)/

Tax·is

Taxis

n.
  1. Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. (Surg.)
  2. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
  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.