| caseous |
of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike
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| caseous tubercle |
a tubercle having a central necrotic yellowish mass of cheesy material, such as occurs in tuberculosis.
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| caseous osteitis |
tuberculous caries of bone.
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| caseous |
"cheesy" or "cheese-like". As in caseous necrosis - cell death characteristic of certain inflammations (eg tuberculosis) where the affected tissue shows the crumbly consistency and dull, opaque quality of cheese. Based on casein - the principal protein of milk, the basis of curds and cheese.
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| caseous a. |
one containing cheeselike material, as in pulmonary tuberculosis. Called also cheesy a.
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