senescence
See also: sénescence
English
Etymology
From Latin senēscere (“to grow old”).
Pronunciation
Noun
senescence (usually uncountable, plural senescences)
- (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
- Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it’s like it’s a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.
- (cell biology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
- 2018, University of Edinburgh, "Liver Study Offers Insights into Hard-to-treat Diseases" (9 March 2018), Drug Discovery & Development.
- Tests in mice found that inducing senescence in bile duct cells - mimicking the process seen in human bile duct disease - led to liver scarring and damage of liver function.
- 2018, University of Edinburgh, "Liver Study Offers Insights into Hard-to-treat Diseases" (9 March 2018), Drug Discovery & Development.
- (gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
- (botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
- (cytology, of a cell) Condition when the cell ceases to divide.
Related terms
Translations
biology: the state or process of aging
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cell biology: ceasing to divide by mitosis
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gerontology: old age
botany: fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit
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See also
Further reading
- senescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cellular senescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia