| acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
AIDS is a measure of how much damage HIV has done to a person's immune system. It is not a disease. AIDS can develop after someone gets HIV. After HIV has been inside someone's body for a long time it can weaken or destroy their immune system. The immune system can't fight germs any more. They get different diseases or illnesses, also called opportunistic infections. Sometimes a doctor can still find that a healthy person with HIV has AIDS.
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| acquired |
In disease terms, something that you get from someone else. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, are ACQUIRED.
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| 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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