verb
definition
To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
definition
To infect with a disease.
adjective
definition
Affected with or suffering from disease.
Examples of diseased in a Sentence
The only remedy is to cut off and burn the diseased branches.
When he was diseased in body and in mind, she was the most tender of nurses.
In anatomy and physiology little advance had been made, and so of pathology in the sense of an explanation of morbid processes or knowledge of diseased structures there could be very little.
The iron sulphate solution should be used while the vines are in a dormant condition, and diseased parts should be cleared away and burned, The black rot, like the Uncinula and Plasmopara, is also American in its origin.
Their pharmacological action is as obscure as their effects in certain diseased conditions are consistently brilliant and unexampled.
No possibility of recovery now remained to the diseased Hebrew state.
If upon such inspection the meat, &c., appears to be diseased, unsound or unwholesome, it may be taken before a justice for the purpose of being condemned, and the person to whom the meat, &c., belongs or in whose possession it was found is liable to a penalty or, in the discretion of the justices, to imprisonment for three months without the option of a fine.
Discolorations are among the commonest of all signs that a plant is sickly or diseased.
They supposed that it was accompanied by a peculiar hyaline thickening of the arterial wall, usually of the tunica intima, and hence they termed the supposed diseased state " arterio-capillary fibrosis," and gave the fibrous substance the name " hyaline-fibroid."
The Hippocratic and also Galenic rule, to let blood from, or near to, the diseased organ, was revived by Pierre Brissot (1470-1522), a professor in the university of Paris.
The result of his discovery was an entire revolution in the knowledge of diseases of the chest; but it would be a mistake to forget that an essential factor in this revolution was the simultaneous study of the condition of the diseased organs as seen after death.
That king, shortly before his death, refounded Rahere's St Bartholomew's Hospital, " for the continual relief and help of an hundred sore and diseased," but most of the large buildings were left unoccupied to be filled by his successor.
The centre of the spots on the grapes becomes darker as the disease advances, and a red line appears dividing the dark brown border into an outer and an inner rim and giving a very characteristic appearance to the diseased plant.
The diseased roots have been confounded with those attacked by Phylloxera.
Efficient inspection of meat in the abattoirs should eliminate a large proportion of the diseased animals.
Potassium nitrate was used at one time in many different diseased conditions, but it is now never administered internally, as its extremely depressant action upon the heart is not compensated for by any useful properties which are not possessed by many other drugs.
The second plan was largely adopted in Switzerland and on the Rhine, where measures resembling those taken with cattle suspected of anthrax were applied to all diseased vineyards.
The diseased stems should be removed and burned before the leaves fall; as the bulb is not attacked the plant will start growth next season free from disease.
There is government control of the spaces on the steamships in which the cattle are carried, and veterinary inspection prevents the exportation of diseased animals.
The opposition of divine good fortune according to impulse to that which is contrary to impulse reminds us of Plato's point in the Phaedrus that there is a divine as well as a diseased madness.
The most effective method of treatment is to cut out the diseased branch or patch as early as possible.
The spots are not often so numerous as to do much harm to the leaves, but where the disease is serious diseased leaves should be collected and burned.
Since that time active investigation into the action of radium on diseased tissues has been carried on, resulting in the establishment in Paris in 1906 of the "Laboratoire biologique du Radium."
Oxygen may be applied locally as a disinfectant to foul and diseased surfaces by the use of the peroxide of hydrogen, which readily parts with its oxygen; a solution of hydrogen peroxide therefore forms a valuable spray in diphtheria, tonsillitis, laryngeal tuberculosis and ozaena.
Internally hydrogen peroxide is used in various diseased conditions of the gastro-intestinal tract, such as dyspepsia, diarrhoea and enteric fever.
If they were the same, then in descending, two things, one of which has healthy and the other diseased lungs, would be the same; and in ascending, two things, one of which has lungs and the other has not, but both of which have life, e.g.
But a thing which has healthy lungs and a thing which has diseased lungs are only similar individuals numerically different.
For these conditions it is administered in the form of a lozenge, but may also be swallowed in solution, as it is excreted by the saliva and so reaches the diseased surface.
In contradistinction to empirical we have rational therapeutics, by which we mean the application of a remedy, whose mode of action we know more or less perfectly, in diseased conditions, the nature of which we also understand more or less fully.
But irritation may be produced by numerous other causes besides this - such as a decayed tooth, diseased bone, local inflammations in which nerves are implicated, by some source of pressure upon a nerve trunk, or by swelling of its sheath in its passage through a bony canal or at its exit upon the surface.
In either case the tubers are reached by the fungus or its spores, and so become diseased.
It is therefore obvious that, if the tubers are exposed to the air where they are liable to become slightly cracked by the sun, wind, hail and rain, and injured by small animals and insects, the spores from the leaves will drop on to the tubers, quickly germinate upon the slightly injured places, and cause the potatoes to become diseased.
The means of mitigating the damage done by this disease are (i) the selection of varieties found to resist its attacks; (2) the collection and destruction of diseased tubers so that none are left in the soil to become a menace to future crops; (3) care that no tubers showing traces of the disease are planted; (4) spraying with Bordeaux mixture at intervals from midsummer onwards.
It is characterized by the curling of the leaves, which later show black A spots due to the production of numerous dark spores in patches on the diseased leaves.
The pieces of dried-up potato with the spores of Nectria upon them are a source of infection in the succeeding year, and care should be taken that diseased tubers are not planted.
Wheat growing on an old manure heap is nearly always badly diseased.
The fungus-spores, from some diseased plant, alight on the stigma of the flower, and germinate there along with the pollen-grains.
Sometimes the only way of telling whether the coronary arteries are diseased is to perform a coronary angiogram.
A fluorescent, Gram-negative bacterium was consistently isolated from diseased tissues onto King's B medium.
The culling of diseased badgers was never going to be popular.
In some people with badly diseased blood vessels, or some other diseases, the risk of complications is greater.
No diseased or non-native crayfish were found during the study.
This affects the health of the organs or cells, which then become dysfunctional, degenerate or diseased.
As this does not remove the diseased gallbladder, an operation may still be required.
Guthrie also advocated the destruction with mineral acids of the diseased tissues in cases of ' hospital gangrene ' .
The aggregates comprise the amyloid deposits in the diseased brain and give rise to the SAFs found in treated brain homogenates.
George King, surgeon, said she had a diseased liver of long standing.
Diseased lungs may have marked mismatch between ventilation and perfusion.
Most forms require minimal pruning, other than the removal of broken, diseased or crossing branches.
To date, all evidence indicates that patients have acquired their infections following close contact with diseased poultry.