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parabiotic

parabiotic adjective: relating to parabiosis.

Adjective

parabiotic (not comparable)

  1. relating to parabiosis
    • We examined the fate of blood-borne HSCs using genetically marked parabiotic mice, which are surgically conjoined and share a common circulation.2001 November 30, Douglas E. Wright et al., “Physiological Migration of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells”, in Science, volume 294, number 5548, →DOI, pages 1933–1936

Origin of parabiotic

From para- + -biotic.

Questions about parabiotic

What does parabiotic mean?
Parabiotic means relating to parabiosis.
What part of speech is parabiotic?
Parabiotic is an adjective.

Words near parabiotic in the dictionary

  1. parabiology
  2. parabiont
  3. parabionts
  4. parabioses
  5. parabiosis
  6. parabiotic
  7. parabiotically
  8. parablast
  9. parablastic
  10. parablasts
  11. parable

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