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Definition of Caseous
1. Adjective. Of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike.
Definition of Caseous
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.
Definition of Caseous
1. Adjective. Resembling cheese ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caseous
1. cheesy [adj] - See also: cheesy
Medical Definition of Caseous
1. Pertaining to or manifesting the gross and microscopic features of tissue affected by caseation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caseous
Literary usage of Caseous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"Enlarged caseous glands in both groins and axillae; retroperitoneal and peribronchial
glands enlarged and caseous; liver pale, several small necrotic areas; ..."
2. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1828)
"OF caseous MATTER. This appellation has been given to the curd, ... Agreeably to
the observations of Proust, caseous matter undergoes a species of ..."
3. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"In all cases of cassation of the cervical and bronchial glands, when the proper
gland substance has become completely converted into a caseous mass, ..."
4. The Pathology and Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases of Animals by Veranus Alva Moore (1916)
"Pseudo-tuberculosis of sheep; caseous lymph adenitis; cheesy broncho-pneumonia.
Characterization. caseous lymph-adenitis is a disease of adult sheep which ..."
5. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, for the Use of Students and Practioners by Roberts Bartholow (1880)
"caseous matter, with greater or less destruction of the pulmonary tissue.
Etiology.—The chief factor in the etiology of caseous phthisis is catarrhal ..."
6. A Manual of Pathological Histology by Victor Cornil (1880)
"When caseous degeneration supervenes, there frequently remain parts of the gland
... caseous transformation consists in the fatty degeneration and molecular ..."
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