parabiotic
- adjective
- /ˌpærəˈbaɪətɪk/
- Specialized
- They used a parabiotic setup that connected two rats for a unique experiment on fat metabolism.
- parabiotic chamber
Examples
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So we did then a very strange experiment and this is called parabiotic pairing.
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To do this, they are doing experiments in small chambers, called parabiotic chambers, that use stomach tissue from sheep to simulate that of the rumen and the omasum, two of the four compartments in a cow's stomach.
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Stomach tissue from a sheep is placed between halves of a glass parabiotic chamber.
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Animal scientist Dwight Seman samples solutions from parabiotic chambers that simulate parts of a cow's stomach.
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In the lab, researchers study the effects of hormones in parabiotic mice to understand metabolic changes.
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The scientists prepared parabiotic models to investigate how two different organisms can share biological processes.
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Morphology
parabiotic = biotic (semi-transparent) = para + bio + tic
The word is built from para- plus biotic, but the scientific meaning of joining two organisms is more specialized than the literal components alone.
Etymology
Parabiotic comes from the parts para- meaning 'beside' (as in parallel) and biotic meaning 'life' (as in biology). In science it describes two animals joined so their bodies share blood or other body functions, which is why researchers use the word for connected pairs.