• Senile

    Origin

    From Old French senile, from Latin senīlis ("of or pertaining to old age"), from Latin senex ("old"), from Gaulish and Proto-Indo-European *sénos ("old").

    Full definition of senile

    Adjective

    senile

    1. Of, or relating to old age.
      • 2013, Charles T. Ambrose, Alzheimer’s Disease, Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— . Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
    2. (often offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.

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