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senium Med.|ˈsiːnɪəm|
[a. L. senium debility of age, f. senēre to be feeble, f. senex old.]
The period of old age. Usu. with the.
1911Stedman Med. Dict. 786/1 Senium, old age, especially the debility of the aged. 1932F. M. Lipscomb Dis. Old Age p. v, I have included only..those maladies which have a high incidence in the senium. 1968J. G. Howells Family Psychiatry ii. 23 Individual members of the family..may be of any age, from infancy to senium. 1977T. R. Harrison Princ. Internal Med. (ed. 8) 8/2 In the absence of disease there is a steady falloff [of nerve and muscle cells] which begins at about the end of the growth period and continues at an accelerated pace into the senium. |