In fact, I remember from my pathology course that "caseous" - meaning cheese-like - is a genuine medical term describing tissue filled with pus.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 14th, 2005] Reference

Mtb, and is necessary for granuloma formation, it does cause immunopathology such as caseous necrosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Examine material from any caseous glands microscopically and inoculate freely on to Dorset's egg medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

The caseous material of canker is also present, as is a disposition to hypertrophy of the exposed sensitive structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

But if he offer to sell me a ton of this lunar cheese, I call on him to prove the truth of the caseous nature of our satellite, before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

After the caseous portion has coagulated (curdled) it is filtered as before, and in this case, too, the product is a fine, clear vinegar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference

Introduce the sputum or other material (e.g. milk deposit and cream; pus; minced gland or other organ; caseous material; broken down foci, etc.) into a sterile tube and then add an equal volume of antiformin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Sometimes the centre is caseous, sometimes fibrinous or calcified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Fibro-caseous type. synovial membrane and easy palpation of bone ends. d.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In TB, this manifests as caseous necrosis with tissue destruction and subsequent fibrosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The milk of the cow-tree contains, on the contrary, a caseous matter, like the milk of mammiferous animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

On examination at the operation, a firmly adherent prepuce and a large roll of caseous matter was found just back of the corona.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference

When examining the slide, first hold it up to the light and note the multiple purple foci, which are TB granulomas containing caseous necrosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A vegetable milk becomes nourishing when it is destitute of acrid and narcotic principles; and abounds less in caoutchouc than in caseous matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

But if he offer to sell me a ton of this lunar cheese, I call on him to prove the truth of the caseous nature of our satellite before I purchase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor] Reference

Mocoa, the nourishing milk of the palo de vaca, the butter-tree of Africa, and the caseous substances obtained from the almost animalized sap of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

The caseous necrosis appears to be a consequence of apoptosis of infected macrophages and activated T cells and TNF-α is a known inducer of apoptosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Curd, called also casein and caseous matter, or the basis of cheese, exists in the milk, and not in the cream, and requires only to be separated by coagulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Caseating foci are comparatively rare, but they sometimes attain a considerable size -- especially in the head of the tibia, where they may take the form of a caseous abscess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Autopsy showed caseous nodules in lung, coronary and generalized arteriosclerosis (including moderate basal cerebral), mitral and aortic stenosis (the aortic valve also calcified).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

To me, it looks like lung tissue heavily infiltrated with anthracotic pigment (black lung) in which there is a cavity filled with caseous (cheesy) necrosis typical of tuberculosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Cheese is also a caseous preparation of milk; the duties of an archdeacon are to perform archidiaconal functions; and opium puts one to sleep because it possesses a soporific virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

It is made up of a fibrous framework and numerous round, ovoid, or cylindrical cavities, lined with masses of epithelial cells, which may be squeezed out as a fetid, caseous material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

On comparing the milky juices of the papaw, the cow-tree, and the hevea, there appears a striking analogy between the juices which abound in caseous matter, and those in which caoutchouc prevails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Already we have found the wax that coats the palm-tree of the Andes of Quindiu, the silk of the palm-tree of Mocoa, the nourishing milk of the palo de vaca, the butter-tree of Africa, and the caseous substances obtained from the almost animalized sap of the Carica papaya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Vauquelin, and this celebrated chemist has very clearly recognized the albumen and caseous matter; he compares the milky sap to a substance strongly animalized — to the blood of animals; but his researches were confined to a fermented juice and a coagulum of a fetid smell, formed during the passage from the Mauritius to France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Since, on examining the distribution of vegetable forms over the globe, we find that those three families are more numerous in species in the low regions of the tropics, we must thence conclude, that a very elevated temperature contributes to the elaboration of the milky juices, to the formation of caoutchouc, albumen, and caseous matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The juice has been since examined by Vauquelin, and this celebrated chemist has very clearly recognized the albumen and caseous matter; he compares the milky sap to a substance strongly animalized -- to the blood of animals; but his researches were confined to a fermented juice and a coagulum of a fetid smell, formed during the passage from the Mauritius to France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Question 13) Unlike coagulative necrosis, caseous necrosis is: a. caused by ischemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Find the caseous necrosis in both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A caseous mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated] Reference

B. caseous necrosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference