caseation
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When these tubercles are sufficiently numerous to become confluent, large masses may be formed, which undergo the same retrogressive changes of caseation and calcification.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The granulation tissue may undergo caseation and liquefaction, or may become encapsulated by fibrous tissue—“encysted tubercle.”
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Tuberculous nodules are found disseminated throughout the muscle; the surrounding tissues are indurated, and central caseation may take place and lead to abscess formation and sinuses.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Under other circumstances, the tuberculous tissue that has undergone caseation, or even calcification, is only encapsulated by the new fibrous tissue, like a foreign body.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
At first the swelling is covered by epithelium; in time caseation takes place, the epithelium gives way, and an open sore is formed.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
