oligopotential
/ˌɒlɪɡoʊpəˈtɛnʃəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
The capacity of a stem cell to differentiate into a limited number of cell types within a specific lineage, as distinct from other types of stem cells like pluripotent or multipotent cells.
Example Sentences
- "It is supposed that ‘feeders’ have a large but finite number of consecutive divisions (i.e. have limited ‘stemness’); they may or may not be committed to a particular cell line (i.e. may be unipitential or multi-oligopotential)."
- "In Chapter 1 evidence was discussed indicating that major differentiation restriction events in multipotential hemopoietic stem cells seem to be stochastic in nature, because no predictable pattern has been observed in the manner in which oligopotential or monopotential cells are generated following cell division."
- "CFU-GEMM cells are the oligopotential progenitor cells for myeloid cells; they are thus also called common myeloid progenitor cells or myeloid stem cells."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more oligopotential (comparative)
most oligopotential (superlative)