Definitions for caseous

caseous ca·se·ous

Spelling: [key-see-uh s]
IPA: /ˈkeɪ si əs/

Caseous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in caseous (aceossu).

Definitions for caseous

adjective

  1. of or like cheese.

Origin of caseous

1655-65; Latin cāse(us) cheese1 + -ous

Examples for caseous

If any surgical interference is deemed necessary, we are decidedly in favor of removing the caseous gland entire by the knife.

But the more common result of the caseous process in the glands of the neck is softening.

On examination at the operation, a firmly adherent prepuce and a large roll of caseous matter was found just back of the corona.

The caseous material of canker is also present, as is a disposition to hypertrophy of the exposed sensitive structures.

Sometimes the centre is caseous, sometimes fibrinous or calcified.

Examine material from any caseous glands microscopically and inoculate freely on to Dorset's egg medium.

Nor are the cases of miliary tuberculosis, resulting from caseous degeneration of rachitical glands, very exceptional.

Its most abundant principles are cream, caseous matter or curd, and whey.

With the supply of blood the nutrition also self-evidently ceases; the gland falls into caseous degeneration.

These pustules may either break through the skin or shrink into a caseous mass.

Word Value for caseous
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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