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prosenescent

prosenescent adjective: promoting senescence.

Adjective

prosenescent (comparative more prosenescent, superlative most prosenescent)

  1. Promoting senescence.
    • Interestingly, while antisenescence factors like SIRT1 decreased, the expression levels of prosenescent factors, such as cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A and caveolin-1, increased in a COPD staging-dependent manner.2015 July 5, V. Conti et al., “Sirtuin 1 and Aging Theory for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”, in Analytical cellular pathology (Amsterdam), volume 2015, →DOI

Forms of prosenescent

comparativemore prosenescent
superlativemost prosenescent

Origin of prosenescent

From pro- + senescent.

Questions about prosenescent

What does prosenescent mean?
Prosenescent means promoting senescence.
What part of speech is prosenescent?
Prosenescent is an adjective.

Words near prosenescent in the dictionary

  1. prosenchyma
  2. prosenchymal
  3. prosenchymas
  4. prosenchymata
  5. prosenchymatous
  6. prosenescent
  7. prosensory
  8. prosentence
  9. prosentences
  10. prosentential
  11. prosententially

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