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AIDS    Audio Help   [eydz] Pronunciation Key
–noun Pathology.
a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, esp. by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.
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[Origin: 1982; a(cquired) i(mmune) d(eficiency) s(yndrome)]
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aid    Audio Help   [eyd] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object)
1.to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
2.to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.
–verb (used without object)
3.to give help or assistance.
–noun
4.help or support; assistance.
5.a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.
6.aids, Manège.
a.Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight.
b.Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
7.aide-de-camp.
8.foreign aid.
9.a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
10.English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.

[Origin: 1375–1425; (n.) late ME ayde < AF, OF aide, n. deriv. of aid(i)er < L adjūtāre to help (freq. of adjuvāre), equiv. to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- freq. suffix + -āre inf. suffix; (v.) < AF, OF aid(i)er < L, as above]

aider, noun
aidful, adjective
aidless, adjective

1. See help. 2. abet, back, foster, advance. 4. succor; relief; subsidy, grant.
2. hinder, frustrate.
Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings “an assisting person,” the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense “helper, assistant”: One of the senator's aides is calling. Aide in military use is short for aide-de-camp. It is also the spelling in nurse's aide.
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intr. & tr.v.   aid·ed, aid·ing, aids
To help or furnish with help, support, or relief. See Synonyms at help.

n.  
  1. The act or result of helping; assistance.
    1. An assistant or helper.
    2. A device that assists: visual aids such as slides.
    3. A hearing aid.
  2. An aide or aide-de-camp.
  3. A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.


[Middle English aiden, from Old French aider, from Latin adiūtāre, frequentative of adiuvāre, to help : ad-, to; see ad- in Indo-European roots + iuvāre, to help.]

aid'er n.
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AIDS    Audio Help   (ādz)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A severe immunological disorder caused by the retrovirus HIV, resulting in a defect in cell-mediated immune response that is manifested by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and to certain rare cancers, especially Kaposi's sarcoma. It is transmitted primarily by exposure to contaminated body fluids, especially blood and semen.


[a(cquired) i(mmune) d(eficiency) s(yndrome).]

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AIDS 
1982, acronym formed from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

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aids

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

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AIDS [eidz]abbreviation
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; a disease that affects the immune system
Example: He had a blood test to see if he had AIDS.
Arabic: مَرَضْ الأيدْز, * فُقْدَان المَنَاعَه
Chinese (Simplified): 艾滋病
Chinese (Traditional): 艾滋病
Czech: AIDS
Danish: aids
Estonian: AIDS, aids
Finnish: aids
French: sida
Greek: Έιτζ
Hungarian: AIDS
Indonesian: AIDS
Italian: AIDS
Korean: 에이즈(후천성 면역 결핍증)
Latvian: AIDS
Lithuanian: AIDS, įgyto imunodeficito sindromas
Norwegian: aids
Polish: AIDS
Portuguese (Brazil): AIDS
Romanian: SIDA
Russian: СПИД, синдром приобретённого иммунодефицита
Slovak: AIDS, syndróm zlyhania imunity
Slovenian: aids
Spanish: sida
Swedish: aids
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AIDS    Audio Help   (ādz)  Pronunciation Key 
Short for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. An infectious disease of the immune system caused by an human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is characterized by a decrease in the number of helper T cells, which causes a severe immunodeficiency that leaves the body susceptible to a variety of potentially fatal infections. The virus is transmitted in infected bodily fluids such as semen and blood, as through sexual intercourse, the use of contaminated hypodermic syringes, and placental transfer between mother and fetus. Although a cure or vaccine is not yet available, a number of antiviral drugs can decrease the viral load and subsequent infections in patients with AIDS.

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AIDS [(aydz)]

Acronym for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a fatal disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. Believed to have originated in Africa, AIDS has become an epidemic, infecting tens of millions of people worldwide. The virus, which is transmitted from one individual to another through the exchange of body fluids (such as blood or semen), attacks white blood cells, thereby causing the body to lose its capacity to ward off infection. As a result, many AIDS patients die of opportunistic infections that strike their debilitated bodies. AIDS first appeared in the United States in 1981, primarily among homosexuals and intravenous drug users who shared needles, but throughout the world, it is also transmitted by heterosexual contact. Today, scientists are hopeful that AIDS can be managed by new drugs, such as protease inhibitors, and need not be fatal. (See AZT.)


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AIDS (ādz)
n.
A severe immunological disorder caused by HIV, transmitted primarily through venereal routes or by exposure to contaminated blood or blood products, resulting in a defect in cell-mediated immune response manifested by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and to certain rare cancers, especially Kaposi's sarcoma.

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Main Entry: AIDS
Pronunciation: 'Adz
Function: noun
: a disease of the human immune system that is characterized cytologically especially by a reduction inthe numbers of CD4-bearing helper T cells to 20 percent or less of normal thereby rendering the subject highly vulnerable to life-threatening conditions (as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia) and to somethat become life-threatening (as Kaposi's sarcoma) and that is caused by infection with HIV commonly transmitted in infected blood especially during illicit intravenous drug use and in bodilysecretions (as semen) during sexual intercourse called also acquired immune deficiency syndrome, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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AIDS jargon
/aydz/ A* Infected Disk Syndrome ("A*" is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple Computer), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe SEX.
See virus, worm, Trojan horse, virgin.
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(1995-04-13)

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AIDS

/aydz/ n. Short for A* Infected Disk Syndrome (`A*' is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple or Amiga), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe SEX. See virus, worm, Trojan horse, virgin.

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AIDS
acquired immune deficiency syndrome

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