"senescence" meaning in English

See senescence in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /sɪˈnɛsəns/, /səˈnɛsəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-senescence.wav Forms: senescences [plural]
Etymology: From Latin senēscere (“to grow old”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|senēscere|t=to grow old}} Latin senēscere (“to grow old”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} senescence (usually uncountable, plural senescences)
  1. (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Biology Synonyms: oldhood, senectitude, vetustity, old age Translations (biology: the state or process of aging): стареене (stareene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), остаряване (ostarjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), verouderingsproces [feminine] (Dutch), vanheneminen (Finnish), Alterungsprozess [masculine] (German), γήρας (gíras) [neuter] (Greek), γηρασμός (girasmós) [masculine] (Greek), senescenza [feminine] (Italian), پیری (piri) (Persian), starzenie się [neuter] (Polish), senescência [feminine] (Portuguese), senectude [feminine] (Portuguese), старе́ние (starénije) [neuter] (Russian), senectud [feminine] (Spanish), senescencia [feminine] (Spanish), heneiddiad [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-senescence-en-noun-xoSQdeqF Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'biology: the state or process of aging': 80 1 8 4 8
  2. (cell biology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (cell biology: ceasing to divide by mitosis): vanheneminen (Finnish), γηρασμός (girasmós) [masculine] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-senescence-en-noun-ubpKA-EZ Disambiguation of 'cell biology: ceasing to divide by mitosis': 11 54 7 6 23
  3. (gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Gerontology, Age, Time Translations (gerontology: old age): старост (starost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vanhuus (Finnish), γήρας (gíras) [neuter] (Greek), senescenza [feminine] (Italian), پیری (piri) (Persian)
    Sense id: en-senescence-en-noun-Y-wjBe5e Disambiguation of Age: 22 6 60 3 10 Disambiguation of Time: 6 1 78 0 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -escence, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 11 42 11 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -escence: 28 12 36 12 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 8 63 7 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 9 45 12 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 11 44 12 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 23 11 45 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 22 11 46 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 11 45 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 23 10 47 11 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 25 9 40 14 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 22 10 48 10 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 23 11 45 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 23 11 45 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 22 10 44 14 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 22 10 48 10 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 23 10 46 12 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 22 11 47 11 9 Topics: gerontology, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'gerontology: old age': 40 0 57 1 2
  4. (botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Botany Translations (botany: fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit): kypsyminen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-senescence-en-noun-xXXixcZD Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'botany: fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit': 9 2 9 74 5
  5. (cytology, of a cell) Condition when the cell ceases to divide. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Cytology
    Sense id: en-senescence-en-noun-dTk8Im6- Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: senescent, senesce, senility, biological immortality

Inflected forms

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    {
      "word": "senescent"
    },
    {
      "word": "senesce"
    },
    {
      "word": "senility"
    },
    {
      "word": "biological immortality"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 6, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Over the next 150 years the known age of the Earth expanded a millionfold and lost worlds of the past were found to have overflowed with species now gone. The chain stretched, aged, and eventually succumbed to senescence.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "ageing",
          "ageing"
        ],
        [
          "humans",
          "humans"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "oldhood"
        },
        {
          "word": "senectitude"
        },
        {
          "word": "vetustity"
        },
        {
          "word": "old age"
        }
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2018, University of Edinburgh, \"Liver Study Offers Insights into Hard-to-treat Diseases\" (9 March 2018), Drug Discovery & Development.\nTests 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mitosis",
          "mitosis"
        ],
        [
          "telomere",
          "telomere"
        ],
        [
          "DNA",
          "DNA"
        ]
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cell biology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Gerontology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gerontology",
          "gerontology"
        ],
        [
          "macromolecule",
          "macromolecule"
        ],
        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ],
        [
          "tissue",
          "tissue"
        ],
        [
          "organ",
          "organ"
        ]
      ],
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        "(gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "gerontology",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Botany"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ]
      ],
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        "(botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
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        "natural-sciences"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Condition when the cell ceases to divide."
      ],
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        ],
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          "cell"
        ],
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        "(cytology, of a cell) Condition when the cell ceases to divide."
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
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        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
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    },
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    },
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "stareene",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "стареене"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ostarjavane",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "остаряване"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "verouderingsproces"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "word": "vanheneminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Alterungsprozess"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gíras",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "γήρας"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "girasmós",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "γηρασμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "senescenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "piri",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "word": "پیری"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "starzenie się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "senescência"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "senectude"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "starénije",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "старе́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "senectud"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "senescencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "biology: the state or process of aging",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heneiddiad"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cell biology: ceasing to divide by mitosis",
      "word": "vanheneminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "girasmós",
      "sense": "cell biology: ceasing to divide by mitosis",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "γηρασμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "starost",
      "sense": "gerontology: old age",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "старост"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "gerontology: old age",
      "word": "vanhuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gíras",
      "sense": "gerontology: old age",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "γήρας"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "gerontology: old age",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "senescenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "piri",
      "sense": "gerontology: old age",
      "word": "پیری"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "botany: fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit",
      "word": "kypsyminen"
    }
  ],
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}

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