immunodeficiency
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- noun
- /ˌɪmjunəʊdɪˈfɪʃənsi/
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inmunodeficiencia
- Although Down syndrome is an immunodeficiency condition, fungal infection is rare in these patients.
- immunodeficiency virus
- human immunodeficiency
- immunodeficiency syndrome
Examples
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I have severe combined immunodeficiency.
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It's called severe combined immunodeficiency.
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If you had that kind of severe immunodeficiency, you probably would have suffered more than myocarditis.
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The name that stuck to the causative agent was the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.
Academic text (2013) -
Whether the increased predisposition to bacteremia is due to an immunodeficiency state related to HIV has not been clearly proven.
Academic text (2007) -
But more importantly, we've picked up a heretofore unrecognized immunodeficiency condition.
Fiction book (1991) -
The patient was started on intravenous acyclovir and tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Academic text (2006) -
Their definition of immunodeficiency involved patients with HIV, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and sarcoidosis.
Academic text (2009) -
Rotavirus vaccine, however, is currently contraindicated in infants with severe combined immunodeficiency due to reports of vaccine-acquired rotavirus infection.
Academic text (2017) -
Many patients with immunodeficiency are at a higher risk for infections.
Synonyms
A disease that makes the body's defence system attack itself or stop working properly
Antonyms
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Ability of the body to make a normal defence against germs and to respond to vaccines
Compounds
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A virus that attacks the body's defence system by destroying important immune cells and causes AIDS
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A rare inherited illness that makes the body's defence against infections very weak
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A rare condition passed from parents that makes babies unable to fight infections and often deadly without treatment
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
immunodeficiency = deficiency (transparent) = immuno + deficiency
The term denotes a deficiency of the immune system and is directly analyzable as 'immuno-' (immune) + 'deficiency', so learners who know those parts can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word immunodeficiency is made of immuno- ('immune', 'protected') and deficiency ('lack' or 'not enough'). So it means the body does not have enough immune protection, which is why people with immunodeficiency get more infections.