IMMUNODEFICIENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immunodeficiency mean? 

• IMMUNODEFICIENCY (noun)
  The noun IMMUNODEFICIENCY has 1 sense:

1. immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced

  Familiarity information: IMMUNODEFICIENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNODEFICIENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("immunodeficiency" is a kind of...):

immunological disorder (a disorder of the immune system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunodeficiency"):

acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS (a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles)

agammaglobulinemia (a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection)

hypogammaglobulinemia (an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection)

SCID; severe combined immunodeficiency; severe combined immunodeficiency disease (a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life)

Antonym:

immunocompetence (the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen)

Derivation:

immunodeficient (incapable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen)

 Context examples 

A non-Hodgkin lymphoma that arises from the cervix in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

(AIDS-Related Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma of the Cervix, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic derivative of hydroxyethylamine sulfonamide that selectively binds to and inhibits human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease.

(Amprenavir, NCI Thesaurus)

A C-C Chemokine Receptor Type 5 (CCR5) antagonist with activity against the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1.

(Ancriviroc, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain cancer types that are more likely to occur in people who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

(AIDS-Related Malignant Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

The prognosis is closely related to the severity of immunodeficiency.

(AIDS-Related Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A Kaposi sarcoma arising from the stomach in patients who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

(AIDS-Related Gastric Kaposi Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents in patients who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

(AIDS-Related Kaposi Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Frequent opportunistic infections due to an underlying immunodeficiency.

(Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

Any agent that prevents the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from reproducing.

(Anti-HIV Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

An autosomal recessive combined immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations in the RAG-1 and RAG-2 genes.

(Omenn Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)