caseate
Synonym of caseinate.
Adjective
- Of a cheese-like texture.
- 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...
Origin
From Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Noun
- Synonym of caseinate.
Synonyms: caseinate
- A salt or ester of caseic acid.
- Two peculiar principles have been discovered by Proust, in the caseous matter of milk, which he has named Caseic acid, and Caseous oxide. The former is obtained by keeping the curd of milk for several days in water,...
Origin
From caseic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Forms
Verb
- To 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:
- 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:
Origin
Back-formation from caseation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).