parabiosis
Americannoun
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experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
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Physiology. the temporary loss of conductivity or excitability of a nerve cell.
noun
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the natural union of two individuals, such as Siamese twins, so that they share a common circulation of the blood
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a similar union induced for experimental or therapeutic purposes
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In the early 2000s a group of scientists at Stanford University, California, revived a grisly procedure used in the 1950s known as parabiosis.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2020
On the company’s website, he wrote: “Experiments in mice called parabiosis provided the inspiration to deliver treatments with young plasma.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Irina Conboy of the Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, who has published a study on heterochronic parabiosis, told Salon in an email the FDA made the right call.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2019
Since 2013, Amy Wagers, a stem-cell researcher at Harvard, has studied parabiosis in pairs of differently aged mice.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
The mechanisms by which parabiosis operates, then, are foggy.
From Economist ● Jul. 12, 2017
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