stem cell

See also: stemcell and stem-cell

English

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," Nature Reviews: Genetics, vol 3, p. 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.

Translations

primal undifferentiated cell

• Armenian: ցողունային բջիջ (cʻoġunayin bǰiǰ)
• Catalan: cèl·lula mare f
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 幹細胞／干细胞 (zh) (gànxìbāo), 干细胞 (zh) (gànxìbāo)

• Czech: kmenová buňka f
• Danish: stamcelle (da)
• Dutch: stamcel (nl) f
• Finnish: kantasolu (fi)
• French: cellule souche (fr) f
• German: Stammzelle (de) f
• Greek: βλαστοκύτταρο (el) n (vlastokýttaro)
• Hungarian: őssejt (hu)
• Icelandic: stofnfruma f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: sel induk (id)
• Italian: cellula staminale (it) f
• Japanese: 幹細胞 (ja) (かんさいぼう, kansaibō)
• Korean: 줄기세포 (julgisepo)
• Kurdish:
• Lithuanian: kamieninė ląstelė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stamcelle m or f

  Nynorsk: stamcelle f

• Polish: komórka macierzysta (pl) f, komórka pnia f
• Portuguese: célula-tronco f
• Russian: стволова́я кле́тка (ru) f (stvolovája klétka)
• Slovak: kmeňová bunka
• Spanish: célula madre (es) f
• Swedish: stamcell (sv) c
• Vietnamese: tế bào gốc