Senescence is an English word with synonyms like aging or ageing. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Senescence in a sentence
Senescence meaning
- The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
- Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
- Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
Using Senescence
- The main meaning on this page is: The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age. | Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage. | Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
- Useful related words include: aging, ageing, organic process, biological process.
- In the example corpus, senescence often appears in combinations such as: cellular senescence, to senescence, of senescence.
Context around Senescence
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Senescence
- In this selection, "senescence" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cellular, magpie, sloppy, refers, induced and rate stand out and add context to how "senescence" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cellular senescence is a and cellular senescence occurs in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "senescence" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with senescence
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Reproductive maturation and senescence in the female brown bear. (9 words)
Gradual senescence is exhibited by all placental mammalian life histories. (10 words)
Like the Galapagos tortoise, crocodile's cells are particularly resistant to senescence. (12 words)
By comparing these genes and their functions to those in organisms that age in a more standard manner, scientists hope to identify the mechanisms that allow to escape the usual fate of senescence, the loss of a cells ability to grow and divide. (43 words)
The three compounds were specifically designed to selectively deliver minute quantities of hydrogen sulfide gas to the mitochondria in cells and help old or damaged cells generate the energy required for survival and to reduce senescence. (36 words)
The cell may detect this uncapping as DNA damage and then either stop growing, enter cellular old age ( senescence ), or begin programmed cell self-destruction ( apoptosis ) depending on the cell's genetic background ( p53 status). (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Senescence A dead Eurasian magpie Senescence refers to a scenario when a living being is able to survive all calamities, but eventually dies due to causes relating to old age.
Like the Galapagos tortoise, crocodile's cells are particularly resistant to senescence.
By comparing these genes and their functions to those in organisms that age in a more standard manner, scientists hope to identify the mechanisms that allow to escape the usual fate of senescence, the loss of a cells ability to grow and divide.
Stress and senescence-induced fibrostenotic-Crohn’s disease (S2FCD), characterized by cellular aging and stress.
The chances of death for humans doubles every 6 to 7 years in adulthood, and for many mammals, this senescence rate is even higher.
Cellular senescence is a natural biological state in which a cell permanently halts division.
Additionally, the hot and dry conditions this late summer into early fall has sped up the senescence and dry down of many soybean fields.
Red soft tops have always given off a sense of sloppy senescence to me.
The three compounds were specifically designed to selectively deliver minute quantities of hydrogen sulfide gas to the mitochondria in cells and help old or damaged cells generate the energy required for survival and to reduce senescence.
Cellular senescence occurs in response to DNA damage or degradation that would make a cell's progeny nonviable; for example, become cancerous.
Gradual senescence is exhibited by all placental mammalian life histories.
Life histories show a varying degree of senescence ; rapid senescing organisms (e.
Marcus, I. and Francis, J. (1975), Masturbation from Infancy to Senescence) are also important.
Organs deteriorate as more and more of their cells die off or enter cellular senescence.
Over time, the currents can carve wider valleys ("maturity") and then start to wind, towering hills only ("senescence").
Reproductive maturation and senescence in the female brown bear.
Senescence involves p53 and pRb pathways and leads to the halting of cell proliferation (Campisi, 2005).
Senescence may play an important role in suppression of cancer emergence, although inheriting shorter telomeres probably does not protect against cancer.
The biological lifespan to death from senescence can be 16 years or more, however; one was recorded to have lived almost 24 years.
The cell may detect this uncapping as DNA damage and then either stop growing, enter cellular old age ( senescence ), or begin programmed cell self-destruction ( apoptosis ) depending on the cell's genetic background ( p53 status).
Common combinations with senescence
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cellular senescence 3×
- to senescence 2×
- of senescence 2×
- senescence is 2×