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Hiv - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Hiv : (noun)
1: infection by the human immunideficiency virus [syn: HIV]
2: the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome
(AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells
[syn: human immunodeficiency virus, HIV]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Hiv : HIV: Acronym for the reverse transcriptase , the virus uses its RNA as a template for making complementary DNA which can integrate into the DNA of the host organism).
Although the American research Robert Gallo at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) believed he was the first to find HIV, it is now generally accepted that the French physician Luc
Montagnier (1932-) and his team at the Pasteur Institute discovered HIV in 1983-84.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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