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acquired immune deficiency syndrome

noun as in serious immune disease

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More and more cases began to appear, and by the next year officials were calling the disease AIDS, for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Mr. Kramer’s barbed language and prickly personality helped draw attention to what was called the “gay plague” before it became officially known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.

HIV, is what causes the disease known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.

That footage would become an essential part of America’s understanding of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Driver ants, Ebola virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome: all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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