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

Example:
Can anyone explain the difference between Taxis and kinesis?

Taxonomy
movement, phototaxis, organism, taxis, stimulus intensity, Geotaxis, rheotaxis, Dusenbery, Galvanotaxis, the movement, chemotaxis, cells, Thermotaxis, free encyclopedia, electric fields, magnetotaxis, behavior, bacteria.

Defination from the web:
taxis (plural taxes, pronounced /ˈtæksiːz/) is an innate behavioural response by an organism to a directional stimulus or gradient of stimulus intensity. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that the organism has motility and ...