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Senescent
Senescent meaning
Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. | Characteristic of old age. | That ceases to divide.
Example sentences (4)
But by the time the author knew him, he was in greatly diminished form, senescent and broke, a stark departure from his former glory as a man of wealth and power.
The effect explains the seeming paradox that even the diseased organs of very old people don’t contain high absolute numbers of senescent cells: it doesn’t take many.
There are many reasons why our cells and tissues stop functioning, but a new focus in the biology of ageing is the accumulation of “senescent” cells in the tissues and organs.
Unity’s method is based on targeting the biological pathways senescent cells use to resist the normal death of ageing cells.