Definitions
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 oftissue to acheese -like condition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin cāseus, cheese.]
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Examples
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The disease commences as a tuberculous infiltration of the marrow, which results in softening of the bodies of the affected vertebræ, particularly in their anterior parts, and, as the disease progresses, caseation and suppuration ensue, and the destructive process spreads to the adjacent intervertebral discs.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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At first the swelling is covered by epithelium; in time caseation takes place, the epithelium gives way, and an open sore is formed.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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