"caseous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin cāseus + -ous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more caseous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most caseous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "caseous degeneration"
        },
        {
          "word": "caseous necrosis"
        },
        {
          "word": "fibrocaseous"
        },
        {
          "word": "noncaseous"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:",
          "text": "But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling cheese."
      ],
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        [
          "cheese",
          "cheese"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "caseification"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "caseous"
}

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    {
      "word": "caseous degeneration"
    },
    {
      "word": "caseous necrosis"
    },
    {
      "word": "fibrocaseous"
    },
    {
      "word": "noncaseous"
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin cāseus + -ous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more caseous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most caseous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:",
          "text": "But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.",
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        "Resembling cheese."
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  "word": "caseous"
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