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Definition of Chemotaxis
1. Noun. Movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus.
Definition of Chemotaxis
1. n. The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoöspores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis).
Definition of Chemotaxis
1. Noun. (biology biochemistry) the movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant ¹
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Definition of Chemotaxis
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Medical Definition of Chemotaxis
1. A response of motile cells or organisms in which the direction of movement is affected by the gradient of a diffusible substance. Differs from chemokinesis in that the gradient alters probability of motion in one direction only, rather than rate or frequency of random motion. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemotaxis
Literary usage of Chemotaxis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"... need for us to enter into any further discussion of chemotaxis in such organisms,
... where the body of the organism is inverted as strophic chemotaxis, ..."
2. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"chemotaxis OP LEUCOCYTES That leucocytes come to the site of an infection because
of chemical substances produced by bacteria at this point, that is to say, ..."
3. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"chemotaxis An important question in the study of the phenomena of phagocytosis
is the manner in which the various leukocytes and other body- cells are ..."
4. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1897)
"The Infusoria aggregate around bacteria in the water, — chemotaxis (Fig. 24, m FIG.
24.—Glass tubes, about 0.5 cm. in diameter and 20 cm. long, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"chemotaxis. BERTELLI, FALTA, and SCHWEEGER (Ztschr. f. klin. Med., 1910, Ixxi,
23) have studied the effect which a number of substances show upon the cells ..."
6. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"CHEMOTROPISM AND chemotaxis.—Microorganisms manifest their :erence for certain
foods not by a stimulated growth alone. They make efforts to obtain better ..."
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