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Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving.

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

g to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. He said, and the sword his throat applied. Dryden.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

A diseased sheep, or its mutton.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

puscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Deceit and cankered malice. Dryden. As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Shak.

Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart Shak.

dium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

flict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased. He was diseased in body and mind. Macaulay.

Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.

remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.