totipotent

Meaning of totipotent

adjective
  1. (of an immature or stem cell) capable of giving rise to any cell type or (of a blastomere) a complete embryo.
    totipotent embryo cells can differentiate into a hundred different cell types specialized to form such tissues as skin, marrow, and muscle

early 20th century: from Latin totus ‘whole’ + potent1.

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Hyphenation of totipotent

totipo-tent

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • totipotent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of totipotent

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