taxis

  1. Noun.  (biology) The movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
  3. Noun.  (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
  4. Noun.  (plural of, taxi) .

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