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taxis (tak′sis)

noun

  1. in ancient Greece, a unit of troops of varying size

  2. Etymology: ModL < Gr

    Biol. the movement of a free-moving cell or organism toward or away from some external stimulus
  3. Surgery the replacement by hand of some displaced part without cutting any tissue

Etymology: Gr, arrangement, division: see tactics

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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