Crossword-Solution: CHEMOTAXIS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
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greedy person
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Sentences with CHEMOTAXIS (4)
This faculty of the white blood corpuscles to apprehend the presence and exact location of the enemy has been ascribed to chemical attraction and is called ~chemotaxis.~ The army of defense is made up of the white blood corpuscles or leukocytes and of connective tissue cells which separate themselves from the neighboring tissues.
Upon the basis of a careful diagnosis, the necessary nutritive salts or cell-foods, carefully compounded in accordance with the law of chemotaxis must be administered.
From long years of practical experience I have found that the special cells of each tissue will take up only those constituents which they need for the construction of their respective tissue, as taught by the law of chemotaxis.
The various cells are attracted to the bacteria by a peculiar chemical or biological power known as _chemotaxis_, which seems to result from variations in the surface tension of different varieties of cells, probably caused by some substance produced by the micro-organisms.