totipotency

1. 1.

   the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part

   “animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development”

   Synonymstotipotence

   Broaderability

Other forms of totipotency

plural

totipotencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about totipotency

What does totipotency mean?

totipotency means "the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part".

How many syllables are in totipotency?

totipotency has 5 syllables: to-ti-po-ten-cy. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for totipotency?

Close synonyms include totipotence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is totipotency a common word?

totipotency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.