Definition of senescence in English: senescence
noun mass noun Biology 1 The condition or process of deterioration with age.
Example sentences
‘But most healthy mammalian cells managed just a few dozen divisions before they stopped, a process known as replicative senescence.’ ‘Oxidative processes during senescence involve an increase in enzyme activities generating oxygen radicals and superoxide ions.’ ‘Although it is characterized as being a deterioration process, senescence is considered to be a highly evolved genetic process.’ ‘A pretreatment of cold-induction temperatures had little effect on the course of tissue senescence under these conditions.’ ‘The degradation of proteins and the remobilization of amino acids to developing tissues is a prominent process during senescence.’ Synonyms
elderliness , old age, oldness, seniority, maturity, dotage, senility
View synonyms 1.1 Loss of a cell's power of division and growth.
Example sentences
‘Behind this zone of environmental invasion is a wave of cell senescence, death and necrotrophic disappearance.’ ‘The terms senescence and programmed cell death have led to some confusion.’ ‘Additional carbon would also be released into the rhizosphere with border cell senescence and death.’ ‘Mortality barriers to human cell immortalization and effectors of replicative cellular senescence in human cells’ ‘We have devised a functional approach to clone genes involved in the regulation of cell growth and senescence.’ Synonyms
feebleness , enfeeblement, infirmity, weakness, frailty, debilitation, debility, sickliness, incapacitation, malaise
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