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

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multipotent

During osteoporosis, these multipotent cells tend to turn into fat-creating cells instead, but they could be reprogrammed to help treat the disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

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

Progressive alterations in multipotent hematopoietic progenitors underlie lymphoid cell loss in aging.

From Nature ● Jan. 23, 2018

These cells then become slightly more specialized, and are referred to as multipotent 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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