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

More and more cases began to appear, and by the next year officials were calling the disease AIDS, for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2022

Dr. Krim had been known as the “Interferon Queen” for her single-minded research into the protein’s medical potential, but quickly pivoted to research of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2018

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

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