AIDS

Definitions

1. Acronym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
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3. plural of aid
4. Alternative letter-case form of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
   alt-of, uncountable
5. Extremely annoying or frustrating
6. third-person singular simple present indicative of aid

Equivalents

Examples

“Patients with AIDS become⟳ highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8).”

“If you were a South African health journalist during the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were mostly an Aids reporter.”

CEFR level