Caseate

Quick meaning: Caseate is a noun meaning Synonym of caseinate.

Meaning

Synonym of caseinate.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, medicine) To undergo caseation, a necrotic degeneration into a cheese-like state.
2. (biology) Of a cheese-like texture.
3. (obsolete, chemistry) A salt or ester of caseic acid.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• caseates
• caseating
• caseated

Synonyms for caseate

Depending on context, synonyms include caseinate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caseinate, caseinolysis, caseinogen, caseine, casease, caseose.

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