Caseous
of or like cheese.
Historical Examples
The caseous material of canker is also present, as is a disposition to hypertrophy of the exposed sensitive structures.
Diseases of the Horse’s Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
Nor are the cases of miliary tuberculosis, resulting from caseous degeneration of rachitical glands, very exceptional.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II Various
Sometimes the centre is caseous, sometimes fibrinous or calcified.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities–Head–Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles
With the supply of blood the nutrition also self-evidently ceases; the gland falls into caseous degeneration.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II Various
Examine material from any caseous glands microscopically and inoculate freely on to Dorset’s egg medium.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique John William Henry Eyre
But the more common result of the caseous process in the glands of the neck is softening.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II Various
caseous particles containing immense numbers of the bacilli are common.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis James Campbell Todd
On examination at the operation, a firmly adherent prepuce and a large roll of caseous matter was found just back of the corona.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Peter Charles Remondino
Its most abundant principles are cream, caseous matter or curd, and whey.
The American Reformed Cattle Doctor George Dadd
These pustules may either break through the skin or shrink into a caseous mass.
Prof. Koch’s Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum
adjective
of or like cheese
adj.
“cheese-like,” 1660s, from Latin caseus “cheese” (see cheese (n.1)) + -ous.
caseous ca·se·ous (kā’sē-əs)
adj.
Of, relating to, or having the gross and microscopic features of tissue affected by caseation.
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