senescence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.

   “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.”

2. isim Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
3. isim Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
4. isim Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
5. isim Condition when the cell ceases to divide.