| acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which kills or impairs cells of the immune system and progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. HIV is most commonly spread by sexual contact with an infected partner. The term AIDS applies to the most advanced stages of an HIV infection.
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| acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
severe disorder of the immune system caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that is manifested by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and to certain rare cancers.
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| acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
also known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; a disease of the human immune system that is caused by infection with HIV, that is characterized cytologically especially by reduction in the numbers of CD4-bearing helper T cells to 20 percent or less of normal, that in modern industrialized nations occurs especially in homosexual and bisexual men and in intravenous users of illicit drugs, that is commonly transmitted in blood and bodily secretions (as semen), and that renders the subject ...
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| acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
A breakdown in the Immune system resulting from infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This breakdown leads to a series of specific infections not normally seen in a person with a properly functioning immune system.
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| acquired immune deficiency s. |
an epidemic, transmissible retroviral disease due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks the subset of T lymphocytes known as the CD4 cells or CD4+ T lymphocytes. It is manifested in severe cases as profound depression of cell-mediated immunity, and affects certain recognized risk groups, including homosexual or bisexual males, intravenous drug abusers, hemophiliacs and other blood transfusion recipients, sexual contacts of individuals with HIV infection, and newborn infants of mothers infected with the virus. The criteria established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the diagnosis of AIDS (CDC/AIDS) comprise: the presence of reliably diagnosed disease that is at least moderately indicative of an underlying defect in cell-mediated immunity (e.g., Kaposi sarcoma in an individual less than 60 years of age, or pneumocystis pneumonia or other life-threatening opportunistic infection), occurring in the absence of known causes of underlying immunodeficiency or of any other host defense defects reported to be associated with that disease (e.g., iatrogenic immunosuppression or lymphoreticular malignancies) or the presence of any of the following in an HIV-infected person: a CD4+ T lymphocyte count of less than 200/mL or a CD4+ T lymphocyte percentage of less than 14 per cent, pulmonary tuberculosis, invasive cervical cancer, or recurrent pneumonia. See also AIDS-related complex, under complex.
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