DISEASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diseased mean? 

• DISEASED (adjective)
  The adjective DISEASED has 1 sense:

1. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology

  Familiarity information: DISEASED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISEASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology

Synonyms:

diseased; morbid; pathologic; pathological

Context example:

pathological bodily processes

Similar:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

 Context examples 

Healthy skin, bone, or other tissue taken from one part of the body and used to replace diseased or injured tissue removed from another part of the body.

(Graft, NCI Dictionary)

A heart transplant removes a damaged or diseased heart and replaces it with a healthy one.

(Heart Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The study of diseased cells and tissues using a microscope.

(Histopathologic Examination, NCI Dictionary)

When any of these structures is hurt or diseased, you have elbow problems.

(Elbow Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

A procedure to replace diseased or pathologic bone marrow with transplanted healthy bone marrow cells.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgeons use bone grafts to repair and rebuild diseased bones in your hips, knees, spine, and sometimes other bones and joints.

(Bone Grafts, NIH)

It was a medicinal project upon his niece's understanding, which he must consider as at present diseased.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When any of these structures is hurt or diseased, you have knee problems.

(Knee Injuries and Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

During a liver transplantation, the surgeon removes the diseased liver and replaces it with a healthy one.

(Liver Transplantation, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A pancreas transplant is surgery to place a healthy pancreas from a donor into a person with a diseased pancreas.

(Pancreas Transplantation, NIH)