multipotencyn.
/ˌmʌltɪˈpəʊtnsi/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈpoʊtnsi/; see also multi- comb. form. Biology and Medicine.
= multipotentiality n.
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1969 Physics Bull. Jan. 6/1 The severity of this defect is dependent on the complexity of the embryo since, after the twelfth cell stage, many of the cells are still multipotent, but at each division their multipotency is reduced and they become more and more specialized.
1971 E. J. Ariëns Drug Design I. i. 32 In cases 2 and 3 there is only an apparent multipotency.
1995 Brit. Jrnl. Haematol. 91 15 The morphological maturation of A4 cells along the erythroid lineage is accompanied by..loss of A4 cell multipotency.
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