HEMATOPOEITIC STEM CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hematopoeitic stem cell mean? 

• HEMATOPOEITIC STEM CELL (noun)
  The noun HEMATOPOEITIC STEM CELL has 1 sense:

1. blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow; T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells

  Familiarity information: HEMATOPOEITIC STEM CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMATOPOEITIC STEM CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow; T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hematopoeitic stem cell" is a kind of...):

stem cell (an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells))