noun. A starchlike substance.

noun. A hard waxy deposit consisting of protein and polysaccharides that results from the degeneration of tissue.

adjective. Starchlike.

Resembling amylum, or starch.

noun. In botany, a semi-gelatinous substance, analogous to starch, met with in some seeds, and becoming yellow in water after having been colored blue by iodine (Lindley); a member of the cellulose group of vegetable organic compounds, comprising cellulose, starch, gum, the sugars, etc.

In pathology, noting a degenerative change characteristic of lardaceous disease (which see, under lardaceous).

noun. A precipitate obtained from a gelatinous solution of cotton which has been treated with concentrated sulphuric acid. Vegetable parchment is due to the partial transformation of the vegetable fibers into this substance.

noun. In pathology, same as lardacein.

noun. A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

noun. The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

adjective. Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike.

adjective. a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy degeneration or lardaceous degeneration.

noun. A waxy compound of protein and polysaccharides that is found deposited in tissues in amyloidosis.

noun. Any of various starchlike substances.

adjective. Containing or resembling starch

adjective. Applied to a mushroom that turns blue-black upon application of Melzer's reagent.

noun. a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch

adjective. resembling starch

noun. (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue

"Scientists say a protein called beta amyloid is responsible for most of the damage to the brain and the symptoms of the disease."

amyloid bodies  amyloid corpuscles  amyloid kidney  amyloid substance  infiltration  

amyloidal  starchy  

amylum  protein  starch  

antigenic  antimicrobial  atherosclerotic  beta-amyloid  contractile  

starchlike