| chemotic | Relating to chemosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| chemotransmitter | A chemical substance produced to diffuse and cause responses of neurons or effector cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemotroph | An organism that gets its energy by metabolising organicmaterial taken from other organisms. (09 Oct 1997) |
| chemotrophy | <biochemistry> Systems of metabolism in which energy is derived from endogenous chemical reactions rather than from food or light energy, for example in deep sea hot spring organisms. (18 Nov 1997) |
| chemotropism | <cell biology> 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. (18 Nov 1997) |