immunodeficiency : Idioms & Phrases

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human immunodeficiency virus

  • noun the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells
    HIV.
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severe combined immunodeficiency

  • noun a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life
    severe combined immunodeficiency; SCID.
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severe combined immunodeficiency disease

  • noun a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life
    severe combined immunodeficiency; SCID.
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