acquired immune deficiency syndrome

American  

Or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

noun

1. AIDS.

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acquired immune deficiency syndrome British  

noun

1. the full name for AIDS

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acquired immune deficiency syndrome Scientific  

1. See AIDS

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Example Sentences

Mr. Kramer’s barbed language and prickly personality helped draw attention to what was called the “gay plague” before it became officially known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2020

After his internship, became immersed in the basic science of the clinical phenomenon of what became formally known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

From Forbes • Jul. 20, 2014

Knowledge of H.I.V. has progressed astronomically since 1980, when the first patient arrived at Bellevue Hospital with what later came to be called acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2013

Perhaps the greatest global health issue is a disease known as AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Driver ants, Ebola virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome: all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Related Words

• AIDS