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diseased vs deceased

diseased

Definitions

adjective

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

Examples

The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.

But dropsy was still poorly understood until Bright, who put it all together with diseased kidneys and albuminuria and distinguished dropsies of renal origin from other etiologies.

Remove really old stems and any dead, dying, diseased or damaged wood.

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deceased

Definitions

adjective

  1. dead

noun

  1. someone who is no longer alive

Examples

It should be appreciated that brothers, sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters are not entitled to any share of the inheritance when children and parents of the deceased are alive.

Madalena had been married to Ana's deceased brother, Luis, and Ana claimed that she had a right to a portion of his estate.

Autopsies on deceased people with autism also show chronic neuro-inflammation and activation of the same brain cells, known as glial cells.

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