HIV


Meaning of HIV in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌāch-ˌī-ˈvē ]

noun

Date: 1986

: any of various strains, serotypes, or clades of HIV-1 and HIV-2 that infect and destroy helper T cells of the immune system causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of AIDS — called also AIDS virus, human immunodeficiency virus

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