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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Necrotic degeneration of bodily tissue into a soft, cheeselike substance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The coagulation of milk.
  • noun In pathology, transformation into a dull cheese-like mass, as in pus, tubercle, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology A necrotic degeneration of tissue to a cheese-like condition

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin cāseus, cheese.]

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