senescence
pronunciation
How to pronounce senescence in British English:
UK [sɪˈnesns]
How to pronounce senescence in American English:
US [ sɪˈnesns]
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- Noun:
- the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
- the property characteristic of old age
Word Origin
- senescence (n.)
- 1690s, from senescent + -ence. Related: Scenescency (1660s).
Example
- 1. Scientists call this overall process senescence .
- 2. He calls the approach strategies for engineered negligible senescence ( sens ) .
- 3. How do they escape cellular senescence ?
- 4. In contrast , functional telomeres instead prevent chromosomal damage and delay cellular senescence .
- 5. Later on , greider 's group showed that the senescence of human cells is also delayed by telomerase .