Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun human_immunodeficiency_virus

1 sense of human immunodeficiency virus

Sense 1
human immunodeficiency virus, HIV -- (the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells)
       => retrovirus -- (any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell)