Pluripotent

capable of giving rise to most tissues of an organism.

having great developmental plasticity, as a pluripotent stem cell. Cells that can produce all the cell types of the developing body, such as the ICM cells of the blastocyst, are said to be pluripotent.

Ability of a single stem cell to give rise to all of the various cell types that make up the body. Pluripotent cells cannot make so-called "extra-embryonic" tissues such as the amnion, chorion, and other components of the placenta. Scientists demonstrate pluripotency by providing evidence of stable developmental potential, even after prolonged culture, to form derivatives of all three embryonic germ layers from the progeny of a single cell and to generate a teratoma after injection into an immunosuppressed mouse.

(ploo-RIH-poh-tent) Able to mature or develop in any of several ways.

See: totipotent.