a. Med. [f. LARD sb. + -ACEOUS.] Of the nature of or resembling lard; containing lardacein; spec. applied to a form of degeneration characterized by the formation of lardacein; also said of the patient.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 526. The body when choked and obstructed by this lardaceous incumbrance.
1873. T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 59. Amyloid degeneration … is often known as the lardaceous, or waxy change.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 434. A solid, fatty, lardaceous deposit beneath the epidermis.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 409. It was not known when he began to be lardaceous.
