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senescent
[ si-nes-uhnt ]
adjective
- growing old; aging.
- Cell Biology. (of a cell) no longer capable of dividing but still alive and metabolically active.
senescent
/ ɪˈɛəԳ /
adjective
- growing old
- characteristic of old age
Derived Forms
- ˈԱԳ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ԱcԳ noun
- ܲȴ·ԱcԳ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of senescent1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of senescent1
Example Sentences
What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II?
The study provides a better understanding of the interactions between cell types and how they induce senescence, which could inform efforts to develop drugs that target senescent cells.
It seems it was the Democrats’ unpopular, senescent, cantankerous candidate who was holding them back after all.
There have been female kings, stagings in innumerable languages, productions set in Viking times, or in a modern-day nursing home with Lear’s madness depicted as a senescent dream.
The trigger for the nerves’ retreat, Dimmeler and colleagues found, is senescent cells, damaged cells that accumulate in tissues with age.
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