The word “diseased” is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone or something that has been affected by a disease. For example, "The diseased tree had to be removed from the orchard."
There's also a tension between the portrayals of the disease and of the diseased, and in the interplay between the two: some of the details of necrotic tissue, or macerated organs, are so magnified that it's difficult to relate them to anything human at all.
But how much more unsettling are the astonishing images of the dissected and the diseased in The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, a new book sourced from the Wellcome Trust's unrivalled collection.
Comparing the expression profiles of diseased and healthy tissue means that diseases can be examined at the genetic level whether or not faulty genes are thought to be directly responsible.Even expression-profiling, however, may soon be old-hat.
And Britain's population of wild deer bigger now than it has been for hundreds of years would provide a reservoir of infected blood even if all the diseased farm animals were killed off.Farmers fear that, if the disease manages to take hold, exports could be affected permanently.
The mummified bodies were buried 1,000 years ago with wooden "heads", and are thought to be diseased pilgrims drawn to the religious site in the hope of a miracle.
Every year, remove dead, diseased or dying material, and take out any branches that are badly placed or crossing.
One illustration of a diseased kidney calls to mind the fig Rupert Birkin bites into in DH Lawrence's Women in Love, and which causes him to rhapsodise the female genitals; another carbuncle, prised out from a diseased heart, resembles a huge red effulgent pearl.
Often, though, a drug must hitch a ride in circulating blood to reach the diseased part of the body it is aimed at.
Only a dozen states have their own rules regulating the business.The case is unpleasantly similar to one two years ago involving another tissue broker, this one from New Jersey, who also sold ineligibly old or diseased tissue including bone from the cancer-ravaged, 95-year-old corpse of the British radio journalist Sir Alistair Cooke.
The family has been unable to plant its main sorghum crop, she says, and their buffaloes are becoming "diseased", a euphemism for starving.India is experiencing its worst monsoon in years.
This suggests that the technique might be generalised to deliver specific treatments to other diseased tissues.
