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1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 524 Forel..introduced the term ‘parabiosis’ to designate a peculiar form of compound nest with inosculating galleries.

1921 Ecology 2 101 The frequent parabiosis of Crematogaster parabiotica and Camponotus femoratus shows that Ule's distinction of gardens inhabited by large and small ants does not hold in British Guiana.

1944 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 13 125/2 Those living in parabiosis with the fuliginosus were conditioned to foraging above ground with their partners.

1988 Ecology 69 1148/2 Parabiosis is not unique to AG [= ant garden] ants.

1908 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 87 374/1 Sauerbruch and Heyde give the name parabiosis to the new condition produced in animals which are experimented upon when they are organically connected together in an artificial manner.

1930 Physiol. Rev. 10 589 Parabiosis is a skin flap union, (to which is usually added peritoneal union), in which two whole organisms, instead of parts of organisms, are joined to each other.

1952 New Biol. 12 46 Referring to the vascular anastomosis normally occurring between dizygotic bovine twins as ‘nature's experiment in parabiosis’.

1955 Anat. Rec. 122 226 From parabiotic pairs formed between rats approximately 21 days of age, 12 pairs in successful parabiosis were chosen.

1962 D. J. B. Ashley Human Intersex iv. 58 Natural embryonic parabiosis has been observed in three instances in man.

1965 J. Lee & F. Knowles Animal Hormones iii. 64 If a male and a female salamander are joined by parabiosis (this allows the blood of the two animals to mix), a blood-borne substance from the male will lead to complete involution of the ovaries.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) 56 Experiments in which two rats were connected together surgically so that they shared a common vascular system (parabiosis).

2003 Nature 27 Mar. 378/2 She leads the reader to rodent models of obesity and the classical parabiosis experiments in which the circulations of lean and obese mice were linked.