diseased

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Surgical options for younger patients include a Ross procedure, in which a patient’s diseased aortic valve is replaced with their own healthy pulmonary valve, which in turn is replaced with a donor valve.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

And just four years earlier, she had had a procedure that she thought would take care of her heart problem—a diseased aortic valve.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

They found that the same senescent macrophage signature was significantly higher in diseased livers than in healthy ones.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

Surgeons have told the BBC that healthy organs can be discarded, and diseased organs can be transplanted.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Not diseased skinny, just ugly skinny—she’d never eaten much.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld