SELF-RENEWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-renewing mean? 

• SELF-RENEWING (adjective)
  The adjective SELF-RENEWING has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to self-renewal

  Familiarity information: SELF-RENEWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-RENEWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to self-renewal

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

self-renewal (the act of renewing yourself (or itself))

 Context examples 

A specialized, self-renewing cell in the bone marrow that has the capacity to differentiate into a cell with a particular function, but especially a myeloid progenitor cell.

(Multipotent Bone Marrow Stem Cell with Wide Myeloid Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

A specialized, self-renewing cell in the bone marrow that has the capacity to differentiate into a cell with a particular function.

(Multipotent Bone Marrow Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) is a biphasic disease, initiated by expression of the BCR/ABL fusion gene product in self-renewing, haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Multipotent self-renewing adherent non-hematopoietic stromal cells harvested from a patient's bone marrow and grown in vitro.

(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Thesaurus)