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PROGENITOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancestor in the direct line

Synonyms:

primogenitor; progenitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("progenitor" is a kind of...):

ancestor; antecedent; ascendant; ascendent; root (someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progenitor"):

genitor (a natural father or mother)

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 Context examples: 

A mother or a father; an immediate progenitor.

(Parent, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

Related by decent from a single progenitor cell.

(Clonality, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of cells or organisms grown from a single progenitor.

(Colony, NCI Thesaurus)

A hematopoietic growth factor with activity on mature and immature hematopoietic progenitor cells.

(Ancestim, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A20 protein, is involved in lymphocytes, neutrophils, and dendritic cell chemotaxis and the proliferation of myeloid progenitor cells.

(CCL20 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

But studies have found that blood leaving the lungs has more platelets and fewer progenitor cells than blood entering the lungs.

(An overlooked role for lungs in blood formation, NIH)

Such a disk would be composed of matter from the progenitor massive star.

(Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star, NASA)

These embryo-like structures express genes characteristic of the various types of progenitor cells necessary for the constitution of future tissues.

(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)

This allele, which encodes oligodendrocyte transcription factor 2 protein, is involved in neuronal progenitor cell fate determination.

(OLIG2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)