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Definition of Senescence
1. Noun. The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.
Specialized synonyms: Catabiosis
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Derivative terms: Senescent
2. Noun. The property characteristic of old age.
Definition of Senescence
1. n. The state of growing old; decay by time.
Definition of Senescence
1. Noun. (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age. ¹
2. Noun. (context: cell biology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage. ¹
3. Noun. (gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time. ¹
4. Noun. (botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Senescence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Senescence
1. The state of being old. Origin: L. Senesco, to grow old, fr. Senex, old Dental senescence, that condition of the teeth and associated structures in which there is deterioration due to normal or premature aging processes. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Senescence
Literary usage of Senescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"ASEXUAL BREEDING AND PREVENTION OF senescence IN PLANARIA VELATA. CM CHILD.
In an earlier paper1 the asexual life-cycle of Planaria was described and it was ..."
2. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, Bennett J. Cohen, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Reproductive senescence Inasmuch as the only animals that show true menstruation
are a few of the primates phylogenetically closest to man, the nonhuman ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"Some Notes on Variation and Protandry in Flabellum rubrum, and senescence in the
same and other Corals. By J. STANLEY GARDINER, MA, Fellow of Gonville and ..."
4. Simulation of Ecophysiological Processes of Growth in Several Annual Crops by F. W. T. Penning de Vries (1989)
"3.2.6 senescence and death senescence refers to the loss of capacity to carry
out essential physiological processes and to the loss of biomass. ..."
5. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"OLD AGE AND senescence. The leading characteristic of old age is the low average
... 45), which displays the growth and senescence of female white mice from ..."
6. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"OLD AGE AND senescence. The leading characteristic of old age is the low average
... 45), which displays the growth and senescence of female white mice from ..."
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