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The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.uncountableusually
- Over the next 150 years the known age of the Earth expanded a millionfold and lost worlds of the past were found to have overflowed with species now gone. The chain stretched, aged, and eventually succumbed to senescence.
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Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.uncountableusually
- 2018, University of Edinburgh, "Liver Study Offers Insights into Hard-to-treat Diseases" (9 March 2018), Drug Discovery & Development. Tests in mice found that inducing senescence in bile duct cells - mimicking the process seen in human bil
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Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.uncountableusually
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Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.uncountableusually
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Condition when the cell ceases to divide.uncountableusually
senescence
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