Taxis vs. Kinesis — What's the Difference?

A taxis (plural taxes , from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement') is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioural responses.

Movement or activity of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light.

(Biology) The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light.

(biology) The movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.

(Medicine) The moving of a body part by manipulation into normal position, as after a dislocation, fracture, or hernia.

(physics) Any energy that creates/controls movement.

(biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.

(philosophy) The force driving life forward.

(medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.

A movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation

(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.

Arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar

(historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

Plural of taxi

Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.

In technical uses, as in architecture, biology, grammar, etc., arrangement; order; ordonnance.

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.

A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism

The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part