Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease caused by a virus called HIV. Acquired means that people are not born with the disease. They get it after being infected with the HIV virus. Immune or Immuno-talks about the immune system. The immune system is the part of the body that fights off disease.
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AIDS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
noun. A disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy. AIDS was first identified in the early 1980s and now affects millions of people.
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AIDS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
AIDS is characterized by a decrease in the number of helper T cells, which causes a severe immunodeficiency that leaves the body susceptible to a variety of potentially fatal infections.
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is defined as an HIV infection with either a CD4 + T cell count below 200 cells per µL or the occurrence of specific diseases associated with HIV infection. In the absence of specific treatment, around half of people infected with HIV develop AIDS within ten years. The most common initial conditions that alert to the presence of AIDS are pneumocystis ...
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HIV AIDS | definition of HIV AIDS by Medical dictionary
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There are two variants of the HIV virus, HIV-1 and HIV-2, both of which ultimately cause AIDS.
