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Multipotentiality vs Multipotency - What's the difference?

multipotentiality | multipotency | Related terms |

Multipotentiality is a related term of multipotency.


As nouns the difference between multipotentiality and multipotency

is that multipotentiality is the capacity to develop in multiple ways; the state of having multiple potentialities while multipotency is (cytology|developmental biology) the ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.

multipotentiality

English

Noun

(multipotentialities)
  • The capacity to develop in multiple ways; the state of having multiple potentialities

    • Synonyms

    *pluripotentiality

    multipotency

    English

    Noun

  • (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types

    • Related terms

    *multipotent *pluripotency *totipotency *multipotentiality

    See also

    *(wikipedia "multipotency")