parabiosis
parabiosis The surgical joining together of two organisms, or parts of organisms, so that they share a common circulation and can exchange hormones or other internally secreted substances. It is used, for example, as an experimental technique in insect endocrinology to show the effects on the adult of hormones produced by different larval stages.
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