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aids

/eydz/US // eɪdz //UK // (eɪdz) //

援助,辅助工具,辅助设备,辅具

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : acquired immune deficiency syndome: a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products that enter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.

  • AIDS insanity:  When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.

  • And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

  • The following year, he developed pneumocystis pneumonia—a serious infection associated with HIV and AIDS.

  • In the 1980s, your community allowed hundreds of thousands of us to die because you believed AIDS was divine punishment.

  • He could not wriggle a toe, which made his mental processes difficult, for his toes were first aids to his brain.

  • It aids conversation by occasionally interrupting it for a short period, to be renewed with a new impetus.

  • The oil not only prevents evaporation but aids greatly to keep the uncovered parts from corrosion.

  • While waiting the return of his aids, he went to the top of the college to reconnoitre the surrounding country.

  • The knight's fee was subject to aids, which were paid to the Crown upon the marriage of the king's son or daughter.