Soft

not hard. S. Palate. Yielding readily to pre ure; See Palate Softening. The act of becoming le cohesive, firm, or resistant. S., Acute Gastric, a disease of childhood in which the stomach and intestines are said to undergo softening. It is robably a post-mortem phenomenon. S., Anemic, sin teg ration and liquefaction of the brain-substance m lack of blood -supply. S. of the Bones, teomalacia. S. of the Brain, a disease of the rebral ti ue dependent upon inflammation or blood lure, the symptoms varying according to the part ected, but consisting in lo of function, partial complete. According to the appearances present the softening has been distinguished as red, yellow, white. See General Paralysis of the Insane. S. lliquative, the name applied to that condition in hich the affected ti ues liquefy. S., Esophageal, ftening of the lower portion of the esophagus due the solvent action of the gastric juice. S. of the eart, myomalacia cord is, a softening of the cardiac uscle consequent on arterial anemia. S., Hemoragic, the softening of parts involved in a Mucoid, myxomatous degeneration. S., ed, or Yellow (of the brain), when hemorrhage companies the ischemic softening, and the products disintegration of the blood mingle with the nervebstance, giving it a red or yellow hue. S. of the pinal Cord, various stages in myelitis known by the rms gray, green, red, while, and yellow softening.. of the Stomach, gast romal a cia, consequent upon ighly acid contents with a feeble circulation in the walls, but usually a post-mortem phenomenon. See Auto-digestion. S. of a Thrombus, may be simple or red, puri form or yellow, the latter resulting in the extremely unfavorable condition of Thrombophlebitis. S., White (of the brain), when the ischemia is unaccompanied with hemorrhage.