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Chivalry Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Is it "-diagnosed' or "-diseased"?

If I was going to say that a certain part of a human body is diseased with a certain syndrome or disease,
should I use the former or latter?
  

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Neither seems right the way you have structured them (with the hyphens). Let's see your sentence.

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Neither seems right the way you have structured them (with the hyphens). Let's see your sentence.
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A "Parkinson's-diseased brain."
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Also, I've checked out the dictionary that indicates "disease" cannot be used as a transitive verb,
so in that case should that the example I wrote above be even correct?
(because it IS a compound adjective)
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Whatever it is, it does not sound quite right, though these are on the Net:

Parkinson's diseased brain tissue

Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recordings of Parkinson's diseased (PD) patients were obtained using a whole-head 122-channel magnetometer
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You probably understand this already, but . . .
diseased means the disease exists.in your body.
diagnosed means that a doctor has decided that you have it.

In other words, eg you may have a disease that has not been diagnosed.
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CliveYou probably understand this already, but . . . diseased means the disease exists.in your body.diagnosed means that a doctor has decided that you have it.In other words, eg you may have a disease that has not been diagnosed.As I said, no doubt you know this.Clive
I'm not saying that these two compound adjectives are exact equivalents to each other in mea
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