Aids
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Aids /eɪdz/ (also AIDS)
▶noun a disease, caused by a virus transmitted in body fluids, in which there is a severe loss of cellular immunity that leaves the sufferer susceptible to infection and malignancy.
– origin 1980s: acronym from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
'Aids' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- acronym
- Aids-related complex
- ARC
- bile
- buddy
- conductive education
- digestive
- head
- HIV
- induction loop
- Iyengar
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- mnemonic
- PWA
- realia
- roughage
- safe sex
- slim
- spermaceti
- unsafe sex
