-phoresis

The suffix -phoresis means "migration":

  • Phoresis, where one organism attaches itself to another for travel.
  • Diffusiophoresis, motion observed in liquid environments where chemical gradients are generated by contact between solutions with different solute concentrations
  • Electrophoresis, motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of a spatially uniform electric field
  • Isotachophoresis, technique in analytical chemistry used to separate charged particles
  • Necrophoresis, disposal of bodies of dead members of their colony in social insects
  • Thermophoresis, phenomenon observed when a mixture of two or more types of motile particles (particles able to move) is subjected to the force of a temperature gradient and the different types of particles respond to it differently

See also
  • Apheresis ('taking away'), where a constituent of blood is separated out and the remainder returned to the circulation
  • The dictionary definition of -phoresis at Wiktionary
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