AIDSn.

Brit.

/eɪdz/, U.S.

/eɪdz/

Forms: 1900s– AIDS, 1900s– A.I.D.S., 1900s– Aids.

Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see acquired immune deficiency syndrome at acquired adj. Compounds).

A disease characterized by fever, weight loss, lymphadenopathy, and the occurrence of opportunistic infections and malignant tumours, associated with a reduction in the number of helper T lymphocytes in the blood, and now known to occur as a late stage of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); = acquired immune deficiency syndrome at acquired adj. Compounds. Also (more generally): infection with HIV.Although AIDS was initially identified as a disease affecting homosexual men in the United States, it very soon became clear that it was already widely distributed throughout the world, with the greatest number of cases occurring among heterosexuals in sub-Saharan Africa (where HIV is believed to have originated).

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acquired immune deficiency syndrome1982

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome1982

AIDS1982

gay plague1982

slim1985

1982 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. 31/1 The disease—called acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or A.I.D.S.—produces a suppression of the body's natural defenses.

1982 Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Rep. (U.S. Centers for Dis. Control) 24 Sept. 508 CDC defines a case of AIDS as a disease, at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease.

1983 New Scientist 3 Feb. 289/1 In just one year the list of people at risk from AIDS has lengthened from male homosexuals, drug-abusers and Haitians, to include the entire population [of the U.S.A.].

1987 M. Palin Diary 10 Sept. in Halfway to Hollywood (2009) 517 With me on the interview is a young man called Nick who has AIDS. Like Princess Di I shake his hand and feel no threat.

1991 J. O'Connor Cowboys & Indians (1992) 39 She told him she hadn't got AIDS, if that's what he was concerned about.

1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (FT Weekend section) p. I/5 Between 1995 and 1999 the death rate among people living with Aids in the US fell by two-thirds as a result of advances in ART [= antiretroviral therapy].

2009 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 22 Mar. 18/3 In Africa,..nuns counsel patients to use condoms against the scourge of Aids.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as AIDS drug, AIDS patient, AIDS test, etc.

ΚΠ

1982 Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Rep. (U.S. Centers for Dis. Control) 10 Dec. 653 The infant had no known contact with an AIDS patient.

1983 Observer 26 June 10/9 Across the country, AIDS hysteria is being encouraged.

1990 News Jrnl. (Wilmington) 9 July d4/6 Potential blockbuster drugs, Pravochol for cholesterol and DDI for AIDS treatment, are waiting in the wings.

1991 Rage 13 Feb. (Sex Suppl.) 20/3 I have an AIDS test every six months because I couldn't bear the thought of infecting someone else.

1996 Amer. Health June 20/1 The experimental AIDS drug ritonavir (Novir) appears to cut the AIDS death rate nearly in half.

2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 July b4/1 AIDS scientists have become increasingly convinced that if a vaccine is ever to be protective against HIV, it will have to stimulate killer T-cells.

2010 New Scientist 30 Jan. 34/1 Although the plague culling effect is mitigated by medical intervention in the AIDS pandemic, we nevertheless observe selection pressure on humans and virus alike.

AIDS awareness n.

ΚΠ

1984 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 99 8/2 AIDS awareness workshops and AIDS phone hotlines are also offered.

1991 Rage 13 Feb. 40 She has never forgotten her rise to fame through the gay club circuit and does all she can to promote AIDS awareness.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Dec. a23/2 The One Earth Foundation, which promotes AIDS awareness, quickly sold out of the 10,000 red wristbands.

AIDS crisis n.

ΚΠ

1983 Urban Anthropol. 12 144 Added to the brew of cultural complexity presented in the AIDS crisis is the fact that San Francisco is a city of highly distinct neighborhoods.

1989 D. B. Feinberg Eighty-sixed xix. 246 We figured out that I was depressed because of the AIDS crisis.

2008 Vanity Fair Oct. 296/1 It devoted impressive attention, too, to the AIDS crisis, beginning with a feature in 1987 that curtain-raised the now regular idea of the ‘special issue’.

AIDS epidemic n.

ΚΠ

1983 Lancet 23 Apr. 924/2 This case may have important implications for our thinking about the onset and spread of the AIDS epidemic.

1986 S. Churcher N.Y. Confidential ix. 199 The AIDS epidemic started to wipe out young men in New York with the erratic virulence of shells dropping onto a World War I trench.

2009 Cape Times 23 Mar. 13/1 The AIDS epidemic hit South Africa harder than most places.

AIDS research n.

ΚΠ

1982 Sci. News 25 Sept. 202/3 Investigators..pointed out that $1 million is nowhere near enough to fund AIDS research.

1986 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 July d1/2 A spring fund-raising event netted nearly $500,000 for AIDS research, and more are being mapped.

2004 Vogue Apr. 328/1 This was very much the case when she worked with the American foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR).

AIDS researcher n.

ΚΠ

1984 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 16/3 Federal health officials have scheduled a news conference..to discuss findings made by an AIDS researcher, Dr. Robert Gallo, and his colleagues..concerning a retrovirus they have reportedly called HTLV-3, for human T-cell lymphotropic virus.

2006 N.Y. Mag. 15 May 88/1 The world-renowned AIDS researcher has developed a possible vaccine called ADMVA. The FDA approved it in December.

AIDS virus n.

ΚΠ

1983 Lancet 28 May 1226/1 Dr. Gordon wonders whether T-lymphocyte abnormalities in haemophiliacs result solely from infusion of foreign proteins or whether they are due to contamination of the Factor VIII concentrates by an AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) virus.

1989 Time 16 Oct. 88/1 Those infected with AIDS virus frequently must ‘spend down’ into poverty, demonstrating that they hold assets of less than $2,000.

1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 336 And AIDS is still monstrously distorted in political left-wing mythology. Thus, in a group of ideologues, the mention of AIDS will at once inspire denouncements of the CIA who deliberately created the AIDS virus to weaken the Third World.

2006 Science 25 Aug. 1029/3 Elite controllers—thought to number about 3000 in the United States—by definition show no immune damage and have unusually low levels of the AIDS virus in their blood 1 year after being infected, despite taking no anti-HIV drugs.

C2.

AIDS-related adj. related to or associated with AIDS.

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AIDS-related1983

1983 N.Y. Times 1 May i. 26/5 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis..will look at potential drug treatments in animals for an AIDS-related form of pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii.

1995 Q June 20/1 Grotesque comedian, jingle-maker supreme, out gay and militant Tory, DJ Kenny Everett dies of an AIDS-related illness.

2010 Star (South Africa) (Nexis) 14 Oct. (Business Report) 1 The Mining, transport, heavy construction, agriculture and fishing industries are bearing the brunt of Aids-related deaths.

AIDS-related complex n. a syndrome including lymphadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and malaise that often precedes the full development of AIDS (also called pre-AIDS); abbreviated ARC.

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pre-AIDS1983

AIDS-related complex1984

1984 European Jrnl. Cancer & Clin. Oncol. 20 169/1 This syndrome has occasionally been described as ‘pre-AIDS’ or ‘AIDS-related complex’.

1991 Advocate 15 Jan. 38/2 Neil..has been diagnosed with AIDS-related complex but is not yet chronically ill.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 10 Sept. 20 Her symptoms were those of pneumonia, but blood tests showed she had Aids related complex (ARC), a precursor to Aids.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aids
释义	AIDSn. Brit. /eɪdz/, U.S. /eɪdz/ Forms: 1900s– AIDS, 1900s– A.I.D.S., 1900s– Aids. Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see acquired immune deficiency syndrome at acquired adj. Compounds). A disease characterized by fever, weight loss, lymphadenopathy, and the occurrence of opportunistic infections and malignant tumours, associated with a reduction in the number of helper T lymphocytes in the blood, and now known to occur as a late stage of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); = acquired immune deficiency syndrome at acquired adj. Compounds. Also (more generally): infection with HIV.Although AIDS was initially identified as a disease affecting homosexual men in the United States, it very soon became clear that it was already widely distributed throughout the world, with the greatest number of cases occurring among heterosexuals in sub-Saharan Africa (where HIV is believed to have originated). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [noun] > viral disorders > Aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome1982 acquired immunodeficiency syndrome1982 AIDS1982 gay plague1982 slim1985 1982 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. 31/1 The disease—called acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or A.I.D.S.—produces a suppression of the body's natural defenses. 1982 Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Rep. (U.S. Centers for Dis. Control) 24 Sept. 508 CDC defines a case of AIDS as a disease, at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease. 1983 New Scientist 3 Feb. 289/1 In just one year the list of people at risk from AIDS has lengthened from male homosexuals, drug-abusers and Haitians, to include the entire population [of the U.S.A.]. 1987 M. Palin Diary 10 Sept. in Halfway to Hollywood (2009) 517 With me on the interview is a young man called Nick who has AIDS. Like Princess Di I shake his hand and feel no threat. 1991 J. O'Connor Cowboys & Indians (1992) 39 She told him she hadn't got AIDS, if that's what he was concerned about. 1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (FT Weekend section) p. I/5 Between 1995 and 1999 the death rate among people living with Aids in the US fell by two-thirds as a result of advances in ART [= antiretroviral therapy]. 2009 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 22 Mar. 18/3 In Africa,..nuns counsel patients to use condoms against the scourge of Aids. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as AIDS drug, AIDS patient, AIDS test, etc. ΚΠ 1982 Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Rep. (U.S. Centers for Dis. Control) 10 Dec. 653 The infant had no known contact with an AIDS patient. 1983 Observer 26 June 10/9 Across the country, AIDS hysteria is being encouraged. 1990 News Jrnl. (Wilmington) 9 July d4/6 Potential blockbuster drugs, Pravochol for cholesterol and DDI for AIDS treatment, are waiting in the wings. 1991 Rage 13 Feb. (Sex Suppl.) 20/3 I have an AIDS test every six months because I couldn't bear the thought of infecting someone else. 1996 Amer. Health June 20/1 The experimental AIDS drug ritonavir (Novir) appears to cut the AIDS death rate nearly in half. 2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 July b4/1 AIDS scientists have become increasingly convinced that if a vaccine is ever to be protective against HIV, it will have to stimulate killer T-cells. 2010 New Scientist 30 Jan. 34/1 Although the plague culling effect is mitigated by medical intervention in the AIDS pandemic, we nevertheless observe selection pressure on humans and virus alike. b. AIDS awareness n. ΚΠ 1984 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 99 8/2 AIDS awareness workshops and AIDS phone hotlines are also offered. 1991 Rage 13 Feb. 40 She has never forgotten her rise to fame through the gay club circuit and does all she can to promote AIDS awareness. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Dec. a23/2 The One Earth Foundation, which promotes AIDS awareness, quickly sold out of the 10,000 red wristbands. AIDS crisis n. ΚΠ 1983 Urban Anthropol. 12 144 Added to the brew of cultural complexity presented in the AIDS crisis is the fact that San Francisco is a city of highly distinct neighborhoods. 1989 D. B. Feinberg Eighty-sixed xix. 246 We figured out that I was depressed because of the AIDS crisis. 2008 Vanity Fair Oct. 296/1 It devoted impressive attention, too, to the AIDS crisis, beginning with a feature in 1987 that curtain-raised the now regular idea of the ‘special issue’. AIDS epidemic n. ΚΠ 1983 Lancet 23 Apr. 924/2 This case may have important implications for our thinking about the onset and spread of the AIDS epidemic. 1986 S. Churcher N.Y. Confidential ix. 199 The AIDS epidemic started to wipe out young men in New York with the erratic virulence of shells dropping onto a World War I trench. 2009 Cape Times 23 Mar. 13/1 The AIDS epidemic hit South Africa harder than most places. AIDS research n. ΚΠ 1982 Sci. News 25 Sept. 202/3 Investigators..pointed out that $1 million is nowhere near enough to fund AIDS research. 1986 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 July d1/2 A spring fund-raising event netted nearly $500,000 for AIDS research, and more are being mapped. 2004 Vogue Apr. 328/1 This was very much the case when she worked with the American foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR). AIDS researcher n. ΚΠ 1984 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 16/3 Federal health officials have scheduled a news conference..to discuss findings made by an AIDS researcher, Dr. Robert Gallo, and his colleagues..concerning a retrovirus they have reportedly called HTLV-3, for human T-cell lymphotropic virus. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 15 May 88/1 The world-renowned AIDS researcher has developed a possible vaccine called ADMVA. The FDA approved it in December. AIDS virus n. ΚΠ 1983 Lancet 28 May 1226/1 Dr. Gordon wonders whether T-lymphocyte abnormalities in haemophiliacs result solely from infusion of foreign proteins or whether they are due to contamination of the Factor VIII concentrates by an AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) virus. 1989 Time 16 Oct. 88/1 Those infected with AIDS virus frequently must ‘spend down’ into poverty, demonstrating that they hold assets of less than $2,000. 1992 D. Lessing Afr. Laughter 336 And AIDS is still monstrously distorted in political left-wing mythology. Thus, in a group of ideologues, the mention of AIDS will at once inspire denouncements of the CIA who deliberately created the AIDS virus to weaken the Third World. 2006 Science 25 Aug. 1029/3 Elite controllers—thought to number about 3000 in the United States—by definition show no immune damage and have unusually low levels of the AIDS virus in their blood 1 year after being infected, despite taking no anti-HIV drugs. C2. AIDS-related adj. related to or associated with AIDS. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [adjective] > viral disorders > Aids AIDS-related1983 1983 N.Y. Times 1 May i. 26/5 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis..will look at potential drug treatments in animals for an AIDS-related form of pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii. 1995 Q June 20/1 Grotesque comedian, jingle-maker supreme, out gay and militant Tory, DJ Kenny Everett dies of an AIDS-related illness. 2010 Star (South Africa) (Nexis) 14 Oct. (Business Report) 1 The Mining, transport, heavy construction, agriculture and fishing industries are bearing the brunt of Aids-related deaths. AIDS-related complex n. a syndrome including lymphadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and malaise that often precedes the full development of AIDS (also called pre-AIDS); abbreviated ARC. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [noun] > viral disorders > Aids > symptoms preceding pre-AIDS1983 AIDS-related complex1984 1984 European Jrnl. Cancer & Clin. Oncol. 20 169/1 This syndrome has occasionally been described as ‘pre-AIDS’ or ‘AIDS-related complex’. 1991 Advocate 15 Jan. 38/2 Neil..has been diagnosed with AIDS-related complex but is not yet chronically ill. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 10 Sept. 20 Her symptoms were those of pneumonia, but blood tests showed she had Aids related complex (ARC), a precursor to Aids. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1982
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