stem cell

See also: stemcell

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Noun

stem cell (plural stem cells)

1. (medicine, cytology) A primal undifferentiated cell from which a variety of other cells can develop through the process of cellular differentiation.
   • 2002, Haifan Lin, “The stem-cell niche theory: Lessons from flies,”, in Nature Reviews: Genetics, volume 3, page 931:

     Stem cells are characterized by their ability to self-renew and to produce numerous differentiated cell types, and are directly responsible for generating and maintaining tissues and organs.

Derived terms

• mesenchymal stem cell

Translations

primal undifferentiated cell

• Afrikaans: stamsel (af)
• Arabic: خَلِيَّة جِذْعِيَّة (ḵaliyya(t) jiḏʕiyya)
• Armenian: ցողունային բջիջ (cʻoġunayin bǰiǰ)
• Basque: zelula ama
• Bengali: মাতৃকোষ (matrikōś)
• Breton: kellig diazez f
• Bulgarian: стволова клетка f (stvolova kletka)
• Catalan: cèl·lula mare (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 幹細胞 / 干细胞 (gon³ sai³ baau¹)

  Mandarin: 幹細胞 / 干细胞 (zh) (gànxìbāo)

• Czech: kmenová buňka f
• Danish: stamcelle (da)
• Dutch: stamcel (nl) f
• Esperanto: praĉelo
• Estonian: tüvirakk (et)
• Finnish: kantasolu (fi)
• French: cellule souche (fr) f
• Georgian: ღეროვანი უჯრედი (ɣerovani uǯredi)
• German: Stammzelle (de) f
• Greek: βλαστοκύτταρο (el) n (vlastokýttaro)
• Hebrew: תָּא גֶּזַע (he) m
• Hungarian: őssejt (hu)
• Icelandic: stofnfruma f
• Indonesian: sel induk (id), sel punca (id)
• Interlingua: cellula originator
• Italian: cellula staminale (it) f
• Japanese: 幹細胞 (ja) (かんさいぼう, kansaibō)
• Kazakh: бағаналы жасуша (bağanaly jasuşa)
• Khmer: កោសិកាដើម (kaosekaadaəm)
• Korean: 줄기세포 (julgisepo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xaneya bineratî f

• Latvian: cilmes šūna f
• Lithuanian: kamieninė ląstelė f
• Malay: sel tunjang
• Mongolian: үүдэл эс (üüdel es)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stamcelle m or f

  Nynorsk: stamcelle f

• Persian: یاخته بنیادی (yâxte-ye bonyâdi), سلول بنیادی (sellul-e bonyâdi)
• Polish: komórka macierzysta (pl) f, komórka pnia f
• Portuguese: célula-tronco (pt) f
• Russian: стволова́я кле́тка (ru) f (stvolovája klétka)
• Slovak: kmeňová bunka
• Slovene: matična celica
• Spanish: célula madre (es) f
• Swedish: stamcell (sv) c
• Turkish: kök hücre (tr)
• Ukrainian: стовбуро́ва кліти́на f (stovburóva klitýna)
• Vietnamese: tế bào gốc
• Welsh: bôn-gell f