(of an immature or stem cell) capable of giving rise to any cell type or (of a blastomere) a complete embryo:totipotent embryo cells can differentiate into a hundred different cell types specialized to form such tissues as skin, marrow, and muscle
Derivatives
totipotency
noun
Origin:
early 20th century: from Latin totus 'whole' + potent1
totipotent in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of totipotent in the US English dictionary
