neurobiotaxisn.
/ˌnjʊərə(ʊ)bʌɪə(ʊ)ˈtaksɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)ʊroʊˌbaɪəˈtæksəs/ Biology. Now chiefly historical.
The migration of neurons or neurites towards a source of stimuli, esp. as a mechanism of development or evolution of the nervous system.
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neurobiotaxis1908
1908 C. U. A. Kappers in Jrnl. Physiol. 37 140 Referring for further details concerning these phenomena of neurobiotaxis to my former papers on this subject, I only wish to state here that..it is obvious that the motor cells migrate in the direction whence they get the greatest quantity of stimuli.
1927 Jrnl. Philos. 24 413 The doctrine of neurobiotaxis states that the direction of the developing neuroblast is controlled by the bio-electric processes which result from stimulation.
1961 P. Glees Exper. Neurol. vi. 168 In accordance with his hypothesis of neurobiotaxis..Kappers (1920) believes that the dendrites grow from the cell towards the source of their afferent stimuli.
1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) ii. 164/2 Attractive as the concept of neurobiotaxis may have seemed, it must be added that it is supported by little direct evidence.
1998 Evolution 52 1764/2 The model of neurobiotaxis..expects neuronal cell bodies (soma) to change position toward their source of physiological stimulation in phylogeny.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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