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parabiotic

parabiotic

English

Adjective

parabiotic (not comparable)

  1. Affected by parabiosis or being of the nature of of parabiosis.
    • 2001 November 30, Douglas E. Wright et al., “Physiological Migration of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells”, in Science, volume 294, number 5548, DOI:10.1126/science.1064081, pages 1933-1936:
      We examined the fate of blood-borne HSCs using genetically marked parabiotic mice, which are surgically conjoined and share a common circulation.