caseate

plural caseates

1. Synonym of caseinate.

   Synonyms: caseinate

2. obsoletechemistryA salt or ester of caseic acid.

present singular third person caseates · participle present caseating · participle past caseated · past caseated

1. intransitivemedicineTo undergo caseation, a necrotic degeneration into a cheese-like state.

   But very commonly the cell-growth degenerates, breaks down into pus, or caseates and perhaps subsequently softens.

   1887, Robert Druitt, Druitt's Surgeon's Vade Mecum: A Manual of Modern Surgery

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   Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.

   2013, Otto Braun-Falco, Dermatology, page 141

1. not comparablebiologyOf a cheese-like texture.

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   But pearls and Corrall, and whatsoever else hath a saxatile hardnesse of shell-fish, must give place truly to gemmes for hardnesse; and yet they are not therefore digested in the Athanor of our Oeconomy, so well as in the stomack of some birds. But the stones of Bezoar and of Crabs &c. not so hard as pearls, are not of a saxatile nature: but are rather made of a lacteous semi-caseate & semi-petrified juice, and have a neutrall nature of a tophe, between a Cartilage and a stone.

   1651, Noah Biggs, Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the craft of physick, or, A new dispensatory wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c., and the particular medicines of the shops : with an humble motion for the reformation of the universities and the whole landscap [sic] of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie : to the Parliament of England, London: Printed for Edward Blackmore, page 95