acquired immune deficiency syndrome

English

Alternative forms

• acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Noun

acquired immune deficiency syndrome (uncountable) (abbreviated AIDS)

1. (pathology) An infectious disease, caused by HIV, that causes the gradual degeneration of the body's immune system.

Synonyms

• AIDS (abbreviation)
• GRID (gay-related immunodeficiency) (obsolete)
• gay cancer (obsolete)
• gay plague (obsolete)

Derived terms

• AIDS (abbreviation)

Coordinate terms

• AIDS-related complex (“ARC”)
• human immunodeficiency virus (“HIV”)

Translations

infectious disease caused by HIV

• Arabic: مُتَلَازِمَة نَقْص المَنَاعَة المُكْتَسَب f (mutalāzimat naqṣ al-manāʿa l-muktasab)
• Armenian: ձեռքբերովի իմունային անբավարարության համախտանիշ (jeṙkʻberovi imunayin anbavararutʻyan hamaxtaniš)
• Azerbaijani: Qazanılmış İmmun Çatışmazlığı Sindromu
• Basque: Hartutako Inmuno Eskasiaren Sindromea
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後天免疫力缺乏症候群／后天免疫力缺乏症候群, 后天免疫力缺乏症候群 (hòutiān miǎnyìlì quēfá zhènghòuqún), 獲得性免疫缺陷綜合徵／获得性免疫缺陷综合征 (huòdéxìng miǎnyì quēxiàn zōnghézhēng), 获得性免疫缺陷综合征 (huòdéxìng miǎnyì quēxìan zōnghézhēng)

• Esperanto: akirita imundeficita sindromo
• Faroese: eyðkvæmi n
• Finnish: immuunikato
• French: syndrome d’immunodéficience acquise m
• German: erworbenes Immundefektsyndrom n
• Greek: σύνδρομο επίκτητης ανοσολογικής ανεπάρκειας (el) n (sýndromo epíktitis anosologikís anepárkeias)
• Irish: siondróm easpa imdhíonachta faighte m
• Italian: sindrome da immunodeficienza acquisita (it) f
• Japanese: 後天性免疫不全症候群 (ja) (こうてんせいめんえきふぜんしょうこうぐん, kōtensei men'ekifuzen shōkōgun)
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• Kazakh: жүре пайда болған иммунитет тапшылығының синдромы (jüre paida bolğan immunitet tapşylyğynyñ sindromy)
• Korean: 후천성면역결핍증 (hucheon-seong-myeon-yeok-gyeolpil-jeung) (後天性免疫缺乏症)
• Latin: syndrome comparati defectus immunitatis m
• Maori: mate ārai-kore
• Navajo: naałniih yichʼą́ą́h naabaahígíí bąąh dahooʼaahgo
• Persian: نشانگان نقص ایمنی اکتسابی (nešāngān e naqs e īmenī ye ektesābī)
• Portuguese: síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida (pt) f
• Quechua: unquy hark'aypa chaskisqa waqlliynin
• Romanian: sindromul imunodeficienței autodobândite n
• Russian: синдро́м приобретённого иммунодефици́та (ru) m (sindróm priobretjónnovo immunodeficíta)
• Scottish Gaelic: Annlochd Inneamh Dìon-Slàinte f
• Serbo-Croatian: sindrom stečene imunodeficijencije m
• Spanish: síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida m
• Turkish: Edinilmiş Bağışıklık Eksikliği Sendromu
• Turkmen: immuno-ýetmezçilik sindromy