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Definition of Totipotent
1. Adjective. Having the ability to give rise to unlike cells. "Embryonic stem cells are totipotent"
Definition of Totipotent
1. Adjective. (biology) Exhibiting totipotency ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Totipotent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Totipotent
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Totipotent
Literary usage of Totipotent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Biotechnology: Novel Products & New Partnerships by Jane B. Segelken (1998)
"At present, totipotent ES cells can only be isolated using standard approaches
from specific mice strains. It has previously been suggested by others that ..."
2. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"It was first done by inoculating the leaf axils of growing plants, ie, the vicinity
of dormant buds, in other words, centers containing totipotent cells. ..."
3. An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants by Erwin Frink Smith (1920)
"the shock produced by excessive loss of water acting on dormant totipotent cells.
34. I am inclined to think there is nothing in Weissmann's theory making a ..."
4. The Journal of Cancer Research (1916)
"... (cancerous) parts, and they seem to me to be derived from groups of totipotent
or nearly totipotent cells dislocated and stimulated by the growth of the ..."
5. The Vitality and Organization of Protoplasm by Edmund Montgomery (1904)
"For it has been experimentally proved that the definite bilateral organization
of egg-plasm being upset, all parts or fragments of it become totipotent ..."
6. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"The fertilized ovum is totipotent; that is, it is capable of giving rise to all
... or when a totipotent blastomere in its development is outgrown by the ..."
7. Regeneration by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1901)
"The new material that first appears is supposed to be totipotent, in the sense that
... The result shows j~-* that the new material is at first totipotent, ..."
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