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Proliferative vs Progenitive - What's the difference?

proliferative | progenitive | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between proliferative and progenitive

is that proliferative is of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells while progenitive is being able to produce offspring, reproductive.

proliferative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable, cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells
  • * 1988 , Nydia G. Testa & Robert Peter Gale, Hematopoiesis: Long-Term Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation , Informa Health Care, ISBN 082477938X, page 327:
    • "...stem cells may thus lose some of their proliferative potential and thus 'age'..."
  • * 2000 , Yvonne A. & Christopher R. Barnett, Aging: Methods and Protocols , Humana Press, ISBN 0896035824, page 40:
    • "cultures of cells may be considered to have reached the end of their proliferative lifespan when the cell number fails to double."
  • * 2007 , Eduardo M. Torres et al.'', "Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division in Haploid Yeast," ''Science 317 (5840), 904, page 916:
    • "We conclude that aneuploidy causes not only a proliferative disadvantage but also a set of phenotypes..."
  • proliferating; tending to proliferate
  • * 1940 , Albert B. Sabin and Joel Warren, "The Curative Effect of Certain Gold Compounds on Experimental Proliferative, Chronic Arthritis in Mice," Journal of Bacteriology 40 (6):
    • "...they give rise to a progressive, proliferative , chronic arthritis."

    See also

    * proliferational ----

    progenitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being able to produce offspring, reproductive