taxis

English Thesaurus

1. the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part (noun.act)

hypernym	:	operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process,
definition	:	a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body (noun.act)

2. a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism (noun.act)

hypernym	:	reaction, response,
definition	:	a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent (noun.act)

hyponym	:	chemotaxis,
definition	:	movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus (noun.act)