CASEOUS

caseous. Caseous, a. pertaining to cheese

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Ca″se‐ous (?), a. [[L. caseus. Cf. Casein.]] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. Caseous degeneration, a morbid process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.