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caseous /ca·se·ous/ (ka´se-us) resembling cheese or curd; cheesy.
ca·se·ous (ks-s)
adj.
Of, relating to, or having the gross and microscopic features of tissue affected by caseation.
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.


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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).
Coexistent cervical tuberculosis and metastatic squamous cell ... by O'Dwyer, Tigh / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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.
West Nile virus encephalitis in a Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) by Andonova, Maya / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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.
Mycobacterium bovis infection, United Kingdom by O'Neill, Brian / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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