| n. | 1. | (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it. |
| 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; |
| Noun | 1. | taxis - a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism |
| 2. | taxis - the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part |
| Taxis - ["A Language Facility for Designing Database-Intensive Applications", J. Mylopoulos et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 5(2):185-207 (June 1980)]. |