athermotactic en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English thermotactic English athermotactic From a- + thermotactic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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: