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caseous /ca·se·ous/ (ka´se-us) resembling cheese or curd; cheesy.
caseous [kā′sē·əs] 1 cottage cheese-like. Describing the mixture of fat and protein that appears in some body tissues undergoing necrosis. See also vernix caseosa. 2 pertaining to cheesy covering on fetuses that protects them from prolonged presence in ammotic fluid. caseous resembling cheese or curd; cheesy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Histology of the deep biopsy specimen identified features of granulomatous inflammation and palisading epithelioid cells, Langhans' giant cells, lymphocytes, and a few neutrophils with small foci of caseous necrosis (figure 1). Other histopathologic findings included generalized moderate hepatocellular atrophy and focal to diffuse aggregates of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and maerophages, some of which had centers of caseous necrosis, in the renal interstitium. Five cattle (of 7 slaughtered in a herd of 15) had bovine tuberculosis in 1993; they had caseous lymph node lesions and were culture positive. |
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