chemotaxis

English

Alternative forms

• chemiotaxis (dated)

Etymology

From chemo- +‎ taxis.

Noun

chemotaxis (countable and uncountable, plural chemotaxes)

1. (biology, biochemistry) The movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant.

Coordinate terms

• chemoaversion
• chemoavoidance
• chemotropism

Derived terms

• antichemotaxis
• autochemotaxis
• microchemotaxis
• pseudochemotaxis

 

Related terms

• chemotaxin

Translations

the movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 趨化性 / 趋化性 (qūhuàxìng)

• Dutch: chemotaxis (nl) f
• Ido: kemiotaktismo (io)
• Italian: chemiotassi (it) f
• Japanese: 走化性 (そうかせい, sōkasei)
• Kazakh: хемотаксис (xemotaksis)
• Kyrgyz: хемотаксис (hemotaksis)
• Polish: chemotaksja (pl) f
• Spanish: quimiotaxis f
• Tagalog: kapbiling