multipotent

American

[muhl-tip-uh-tuhnt] / mʌlˈtɪp ə tənt /

Also multipotential

adjective

having power to produce or influence several effects or results.

Etymology

Origin of multipotent

First recorded in 1600–10; multi- + potent ¹

Example Sentences

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These multipotent cells can develop into various types of tissue, including bone.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

On its Web site, the Utah Cord Bank touts its products as containing “young multipotent cells” that can turn into many kinds of tissue.

From The New Yorker • May 7, 2019

Functionally distinct subsets of lineage-biased multipotent progenitors control blood production in normal and regenerative conditions.

From Nature • Jan. 23, 2018

Figure 3.34 Hematopoiesis The process of hematopoiesis involves the differentiation of multipotent cells into blood and immune cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

All these eccentricities served only to add to the consequence of the multipotent Mien-yaun.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

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