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dedifferentiate

Definition of dedifferentiate

verb

[no object] Biology
  • (of a cell or tissue) undergo a reversal of differentiation and lose specialized characteristics: some types of human cells dedifferentiate in culture, becoming primitive, unspecialized cells

Derivatives

dedifferentiation

noun

dedifferentiate in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of dedifferentiate in the US English dictionary