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Aids (iou)



Aids noun. Also AIDS. L20.
[Acronym, from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.]
A syndrome marked by severe loss of cellular immunity as a result of infection with a virus transmitted in sexual fluids and in blood, leaving the patient susceptible to certain opportunistic infections and malignancies.
Comb.: Aids-related complex a set of symptoms including lymphadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and malaise, that seems to precede the full development of Aids.