acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
