Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The natural or surgical union of anatomical parts of two organisms, usually involving exchange of blood, as in the development of Siamese twins or in certain transplant operations.
- n. A temporary suspension of conductivity or excitability in a nerve.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The temporary abolition of conductivity and excitability in a nerve.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- para- + -biosis (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This process, called parabiosis, allowed the blood of the young mouse to flow into the body of the old mouse.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parabiosis’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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alone
snow, husk, irk, toss, threat, outfall, daguerreotype, parabiosis, sham, yar, meretricious, fortune
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Unitegration
Wholeness.
agathocacological, subsume, commix, milieu, comity, multivious, symphily, sobornost, myselves, coalescence, conglomerat, amalgam and 75 more...
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whichbe Physical union of two embryos or organisms. (from Phrontistery) May 25, 2008