chemotaxis

noun

Etymology

From chemo- + taxis.

  1. learned borrowing from τάξις
  2. prefixed as chemotaxis — “chemo + taxis

Definitions

  1. The movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chemotaxis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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