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Words related to immunodeficiency

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  • acquired immune deficiency syndrome

    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is the same as AIDS.

  • aids virus

    a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.

  • human immunodeficiency virus

    See under AIDS virus. Abbreviation: HIV.

  • severe combined immune deficiency

    a group of rare congenital disorders in which both cell-mediated and humoral immunity are lacking, causing susceptibility to a wide variety of illnesses and an inability to live in a normal environment. Abbreviation: SCID.
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