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(medicine) An infectious disease, caused by HIV, that causes the gradual degeneration of the body's immune system.
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Alternative form of acquired immune deficiency syndrome [(medicine) An infectious disease, caused by HIV, that causes the gradual degeneration of the body's immune system.]
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Alternative letter-case form of AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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A baby born with an HIV infection.
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(medicine, pathology) A prodromal phase of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.
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(informal, sometimes derogatory) A person suffering from AIDS.
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(offensive) AIDS; acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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(offensive) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS.
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(pathology, obsolete, 1980s) GRID; Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”)
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(pathology, dated, 1980s) GRID; Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”)
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(dated) Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency. [(pathology, dated, 1980s) GRID; Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”)]
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(virology) Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus. [(virology) Either of the two related viruses, human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) and human immunodeficiency virus 2 (HIV-2) that progressively destroy the body's immune system and can potentially lead to AIDS.]
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(virology, pleonastic) Synonym of HIV (“human immunodeficiency virus”)
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Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus 2. [(virology) A subtype of HIV, not widely recognized outside of Africa, related to viruses found in the sooty mangabey.]
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HIV and AIDS, taken as a whole.
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(euphemistic) HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.
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(virology) Either of the two related viruses, human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) and human immunodeficiency virus 2 (HIV-2) that progressively destroy the body's immune system and can potentially lead to AIDS.
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(immunology) The dominance of an antigen (over all others) in its ability to produce an immune response
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(immunology) immunological lesion
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(immunology) Not immunodominant
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(medicine) A person who is infected with HIV but whose infection does not progress to become AIDS.
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(immunology) Of nonself origin.
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(medicine) Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.
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(slang) Clipping of HIV positive. [Infected by HIV.]
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A kind of anaphylaxis that does not involve an allergic reaction but is due to direct mast cell degranulation.
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(pathology) The incidence of a particular material in blood serum (typically HIV)
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likely to be infected (typically with HIV)
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The choosing of sexual activities depending on one's HIV status
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Having no virions (especially of HIV) in the blood
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