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parabiosis
1. Fusion of whole eggs or embryos, as occurs in conjoined twins.
2. Surgical joining of the vascular systems of two organisms.
3. Either the condition of living together, applied variously to mixtures of species of similar habit as man and the rat or to the union of two individual animals; or the condition of symbiosis between two species of ant in which colonies of neighboring nests are contiguous but do not mingle.
4. The natural or artificial anatomical union of a pair of organisms; for example, male and female organisms that share the same circulatory system; anatomical union.
2. Surgical joining of the vascular systems of two organisms.
3. Either the condition of living together, applied variously to mixtures of species of similar habit as man and the rat or to the union of two individual animals; or the condition of symbiosis between two species of ant in which colonies of neighboring nests are contiguous but do not mingle.
4. The natural or artificial anatomical union of a pair of organisms; for example, male and female organisms that share the same circulatory system; anatomical union.
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parabiosis
The utilization of the same nest and sometimes even the same odor trails by colonies of different species, which nevertheless keep their brood separate.
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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