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Definition of Rheotaxis

1. [n -TAXES]

Medical Definition of Rheotaxis

1. Tactic response taxis to the direction of flow of a fluid. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheotaxis

Literary usage of Rheotaxis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1897)
"... (STEREOTAXIS) AND rheotaxis * We have already seen that when a pseudopodium of an amoeba is touched by a solid body it retracts. ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
""i3a Further Studies on Physiological States and rheotaxis in Isopoda. ... '14 Certain Relations between rheotaxis in Isopods and their Survival Time in ..."

3. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"ALLEE, WC: The Effect of Molting on rheotaxis in Isopods. ... 5 ALLEE, WC: Further Studies on Physiological States and rheotaxis in Isopoda. ..."

4. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"4 ALLEE, WC: The Effect of Molting on rheotaxis in Isopods. ... 5 ALLEE, WC: Further Studies on Physiological States and rheotaxis in Isopoda. /. ..."

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