senescent
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- adjective
- /səˈnɛsənt/
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senescente
- Individual yeast cells age and eventually become senescent (Jazwinski, Chen, and Jeansonne, 1990).
- senescent cells
- senescent cell removal
- become senescent
And with the advent of peptides, things like intermittent fasting, which, which helps your body clean up senescent cells, cells that are no longer doing a good job in your body.
- And with the advent of peptides, things like intermittent fasting, which, which helps your body clean up senescent cells, cells that are no longer doing a good job in your body.
- Those are often called senescent cells or zombie cells.
- There there are many others, but these enzymes, they help breakdown senescent cells that can be cancer causing.
- And they're called senescent cells, and there's a ton of them in our body.
- And so you get these autoimmune responses where because of these senescent factors, the immune system is going after them.
Examples
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As we age, all of us accumulate senescent cells in our bodies.
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Why some cells become senescent and why some individuals accumulate more senescent cells than others?
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The good news is there are very few senescent cells in young people.
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With age, cells increasingly grow senescent, too, a process that halts the cell cycle in times of risk, like when cancer cells are proliferating.
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There was weak evidence of lower survival of cubs, yearlings, and senescent adults in the recent time period.
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These polyphenols reduce oxidative stress, reduce inflammation, and help clear senescent cells from the body.
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The senescent tree in the garden had withered branches and discolored leaves.
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The senescent skin of the elderly man often showed wrinkles and age spots.
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The researchers studied how senescent cells affect overall health in older adults.
Synonyms
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A person who has lived for a long time
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A person who is past middle age
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People who are old and have lived a long time
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A living thing that is very weak and thin from old age or long illness
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Looking or feeling old and worn
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Becoming older and showing signs of age
Antonyms
How Aged
Surface Forms
Morphology
senescent = senescence (opaque) = senesc + ent
The adjective is formed by a standard adjectival suffix '-ent' attached to the noun 'senescence', which is a regular derivational pattern.
Etymology
Senescent comes from the old Latin word senescere, which means 'to grow old', and from senex meaning 'old', the same root you see in the English word senior. So, senescent describes something that is 'growing old' or showing the signs of age.