human immunodeficiency virus

human immunodeficiency virus

n.

HIV.

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human immunodeficiency virus

See HIV.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

human immunodeficiency virus - the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells HIV retrovirus - any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell