pluripotent

English

Etymology

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Latin plūs

Latin plūris

Latin pluri-bor.

English pluri-

English potent

English pluripotent

From pluri- + potent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /plʊəˈɹɪpətənt/

Adjective

pluripotent (not comparable)

1. Having much or unlimited potential to develop in a certain way, especially in a desirable fashion.

   Synonym: multipotent

2. (biology) Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all.

   Coordinate terms: multipotent; totipotent, oligopotent, unipotent

   • 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 99:

     As the embryo grows, ‘pluripotent’ stem cells appear, which are limited in their potency.

   • 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     After injecting the virus into the eye, the pluripotent genes were then switched on by feeding the mouse an antibiotic.

Synonyms

• pluripotential

Derived terms

• nonpluripotent

Related terms

• pluripotency

Translations

able to develop into most cell types

• French: pluripotent (fr)
• Greek: πλειοδύναμος (pleiodýnamos)
• Italian: pluripotente (it)
• Japanese: 多能性の (tanōsei no)
• Persian: پرتوان (por-tavân)
• Spanish: pluripotente

French

Adjective

pluripotent (feminine pluripotente, masculine plural pluripotents, feminine plural pluripotentes)

1. (biology) pluripotent

Related terms

• pluripotence