"caseous" meaning in English

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          "word": "caseous degeneration"
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          "word": "caseous necrosis"
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          "word": "fibrocaseous"
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          "ref": "1790, [Antoine-François de] Fourcroy, “Of the Milk”, in [William Nicholson], transl., Elements of Natural History and Chemistry. […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Elliot and T[homas] Kay, […]; Edinburgh: C[harles] Elliot, →OCLC, 4th part (The Animal Kingdom), page 182:",
          "text": "The cheeſe, or caſeous part of milk, is formed into a maſs, and ſeparated from the other parts of the liquid, by the action of fire, by the acid fermentation of vvhich milk is liable, and by the intermixture of acids. This matter, vvhen vvell vvaſhed, is vvhite and ſolid, like the albumen of the blood.",
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          "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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          "text": "The cheeſe, or caſeous part of milk, is formed into a maſs, and ſeparated from the other parts of the liquid, by the action of fire, by the acid fermentation of vvhich milk is liable, and by the intermixture of acids. This matter, vvhen vvell vvaſhed, is vvhite and ſolid, like the albumen of the blood.",
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