Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The natural or surgical union of anatomical parts of two organisms, usually involving exchange of blood, as in the development of conjoined twins or in certain transplant operations.
- noun A temporary suspension of conductivity or excitability in a nerve.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The temporary abolition of conductivity and excitability in a nerve.
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- noun The (natural or surgical)
union of parts of twoorganisms (especially of theirvascular systems) - noun The
fusion of twoembryos to formconjoined twins
Etymologies
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Examples
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This process, called parabiosis, allowed the blood of the young mouse to flow into the body of the old mouse.
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Haek6, working against an entirely different conceptual background, had reproduced Owen's phenomenon in chickens by the ingenious method of making a deliberate synchorial parabiosis between chick embryos in the shell.
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Tolerance unaccompanied by any symptom of runt disease is produced by the injection of embryonic cells or by a natural or artificial parabiosis between embryos, and it leads here to a stable chimerism in which native and foreign cells seem to coexist without the one ousting the other.
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Less than two years ago, Madonna brought David back to London, and although I can't prove she has engaged in parabiosis, the photograph evidence suggests that she did.
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whichbe commented on the word parabiosis
Physical union of two embryos or organisms. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008