nondifferentiation
- noun
- /nɒnˌdɪfərɛnʃiˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
no diferenciación
- The capability of stem cells to maintain nondifferentiation allows them to develop into different types of tissues.
Examples
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In biological contexts, nondifferentiation can result in tissues that lack specialized functions.
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In some organisms, nondifferentiation enables them to regenerate lost body parts.
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This nondifferentiation represents the dominant position in the gifted education literature.
Academic text (2004) -
The participant aims to achieve congruity by effacing and annihilating himself, that is, by melting back into the object and achieving the togetherness and nondifferentiation of early orality.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
A thing that is not divided into different parts or types
A situation when you cannot tell two things apart
Not clearly separate from something else
Antonyms
- Specialized
5
6.2
A process where cells change to have a special shape and job in the body
How Differentiated
- Specialized
1
4.9
- Specialized
5
6.2
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
nondifferentiation = differentiation (transparent) = non + differentiate + ion
The formation 'non-' + 'differentiation' directly denotes the absence of differentiation in biological contexts and is readily inferable by learners familiar with 'differentiation'.
Etymology
Nondifferentiation begins with non- meaning 'not' and contains differentiate, from the same root as different and difference. In biology, this means cells or tissues are 'not becoming different', for example when early cells do not change into different types.