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   ‖Taxis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. τάξις a division or arrangement, fr. τάσσειν to arrange.]
   1. (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.  Dunglison.
   
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   2. In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.
   
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   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”.
   
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