Usually means: Infection exploiting weakened immune system.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. opportunistic infection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. opportunistic infection: Vocabulary.com
  3. opportunistic infection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. opportunistic infection: Wiktionary
  5. opportunistic infection: Dictionary.com
  6. Opportunistic infection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. opportunistic infection: Rhymezone
  8. opportunistic infection: Free Dictionary
  9. opportunistic infection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. opportunistic infection: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunistic infection: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opportunistic infection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Infection, opportunistic, Opportunistic infection: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  5. opportunistic infection: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. opportunistic infection: Medical dictionary
  7. Infection, opportunistic, Opportunistic infection: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See opportunistic_infections as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (opportunistic infection)

noun:  (medicine) Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.

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