acquired immune deficiency syndrome

1. 1.

   a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

   SynonymsAIDS

   Broaderimmunodeficiencyinfectious disease

Questions about acquired immune deficiency syndrome

What does acquired immune deficiency syndrome mean?

acquired immune deficiency syndrome means "a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles".

What is another word for acquired immune deficiency syndrome?

Close synonyms include AIDS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acquired immune deficiency syndrome a common word?

acquired immune deficiency syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.