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athermotactic

athermotactic adjective: not moving in relation to heat; lacking thermotaxis.

Adjective

athermotactic (not comparable)

  1. Not moving in relation to heat; lacking thermotaxis
    • If the major thermosensory neuron, AFD, is ablated, most animals become athermotactic, that is, they will move randomly on a temperature gradient […]2004, Noelle L'Etoile, “Chemosensory Transduction in Caenorhabditis elegans”, in Frings & Bradley, editors, Transduction Channels in Sensory Cells, →ISBN, page 82

Origin of athermotactic

From a- + thermotactic.

Questions about athermotactic

What does athermotactic mean?
Athermotactic means not moving in relation to heat; lacking thermotaxis.
What part of speech is athermotactic?
Athermotactic is an adjective.

Words near athermotactic in the dictionary

  1. athermality
  2. athermancy
  3. athermanous
  4. athermic
  5. athermochroic
  6. athermotactic
  7. athermous
  8. athero-
  9. atheroablation
  10. atheroablative
  11. atherodegenerative

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