agonescence

Meaning

Noun

• A halting of the growth of a colony of cells.

Origin

• Coined by Thea D. Tlsty et al. in a 2001 paper. Explained as Latin agōn ("contest") + .that we have termed agonescence.

  [page 241] It seems logical that the first plateau be called by its original descriptive name, selection. However, it would be useful to suggest a new name for P2 since it is neither senescence nor viral oncoprotein-induced crisis. The most prominent attributes of the mammary epithelial cells at P2 are their dramatic accumulation of chromosomal rearrangements and the dynamic state of proliferation