senescence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɨnˈɛsəns/
senescence (uncountable)
- (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
- (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.
- (state or process of aging) oldhood, senectitude, vetustity; see also Thesaurus:old age
- German: Alterungsprozess
- Italian: senescenza
- Russian: старе́ние
- Spanish: senectud, senescencia
- Italian: senescenza
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