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De - Pt| English Dictionary: caseous degeneration | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for caseous degeneration | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]g[82]n[82]ration.] 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. --Bates. 2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. 3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. 4. The thing degenerated. [R.] Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. --Sir T. Browne. {Amyloid degeneration}, {Caseous degeneration}, etc. See under {Amyloid}, {Caseous}, etc. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Caseous \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. | |
