caseous degeneration

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]

1.The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. [1913 Webster]

Our degeneration and apostasy.— Bates.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

4.The thing degenerated. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations.— Sir T. Browne.[1913 Webster]

Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc. [1913 Webster]

Caseous \Ca"se*ous\, a. [L. caseus. Cf. Casein.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]