diseased

adjective

dis·​eased di-ˈzēzd 

: affected with or as if with a disease : lacking health or soundness : sickly

During a transplant, the surgeon removes the diseased lung (sometimes both) and transplants a lung or lungs from a donor.

—Elaine K. Howley

Pruning is critical to blueberry productivity. An annual pruning regimen is needed to remove old and diseased canes, encourage strong new canes and increase the harvest.

—Sequim (Washington) Gazette

He said he occasionally has had to put an animal down if it is diseased or severely injured, but often works with animal rehabilitators to rescue others when possible.

—Sarah Bowman

Sirois believes that the confession from Hernandez, who has since pleaded not guilty, was the product of a diseased mind. Defense lawyers claim he's mentally ill, hears voices, and has rock-bottom intelligence.

—Andrea Peyser

Examples of diseased in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With research conducted in both healthy and diseased populations, ranging from menopause to ALS, Parkinson’s disease to frailty, boosting NAD+ to youthful levels has proven to have a number of benefits. —Essence, 9 Jan. 2025

The same impulse eventually drove Gandhi from power in 1977 and in the long run opened the door to the victory of India’s current prime minister, Narendra Modi, who portrays himself as a political outsider with a mandate to cure the ills of a diseased democracy. —Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

Specifically, researchers could use AI models to determine how specifically and potently the drug binds to known and unknown targets, the level of these targets in the body, how concentrated the drug becomes in healthy and diseased tissues, and the drug’s structural properties. —Christian MacEdonia, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025

This procedure uses focused laser energy to destroy and remove diseased tissue while leaving healthy surrounding skin intact. —Lindsay Curtis, Health, 24 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above