Definition of Chemotropism

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Medical Definition of Chemotropism

1. Growth or possibly bending of an organism in response to an external chemical gradient. Sometimes used in error when the terms chemotaxis or chemokinesis should have been used. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemotropism

chemotherapeutical
chemotherapeutics
chemotherapeutic agent
chemotherapeutic index
chemotherapies
chemotherapist
chemotherapists
chemotherapy
chemotherapy
chemotherapy drug sensitivity test
chemotic
chemotransmitter
chemotroph
chemotrophy
chemotropism (current term)
chemotropism (current term)
chemotropisms
Chemulpo
chemurgic
chemurgies
chemurgy
chem lab
Chen
chenar
chenars
chenet
chenets
Cheney syndrome
chenfish
chenille

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