secondary immunodeficiency
1Immunodeficiency — Infobox Disease Name = Immunodeficiency Caption = DiseasesDB = 21506 ICD10 = ICD10|D|84|9|d|80 ICD9 = ICD9|279.3 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D007153 In medicine, immunodeficiency (or immune deficiency) is …
2immunodeficiency — A condition resulting from a defective immune mechanism; may be primary (due to a defect in the immune mechanism itself) or secondary (dependent upon another disease process), specific (due to a defect in either the B lymphocyte or the T… …
3Primary immunodeficiency — Primary immunodeficiencies are disorders in which part of the body s immune system is missing or does not function properly. To be considered a primary immunodeficiency, the cause of the immune deficiency must not be secondary in nature (i.e.,… …
4Feline immunodeficiency virus — Taxobox name = Feline immunodeficiency virus virus group = vi familia = Retroviridae subfamilia = Orthoretrovirinae genus = Lentivirus species = Feline immunodeficiency virus Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), occasionally referred to as Feline …
5Severe combined immunodeficiency (non-human) — Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a severe immunodeficiency genetic disorder that is characterised by the complete inability of the adaptive immune system mount, coordinate, and sustain an appropriate immune response, usually due to… …
6acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (Aids) and hallucinations — The term acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, as well as the acronyms Aids and AIDS, refers to a collection of clinical symptoms and symptom complexes associated with specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency… …
7Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome — The Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS) is a division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is part of the National Institutes of Health. It was formed in 1986 as a part of the to address the… …
8hypogammaglobulinemia — Decreased quantity of the gamma fraction of serum globulin; sometimes used loosely to denote decreased quantity of immunoglobulins in general; associated with increased susceptibility to pyogenic infections. SYN: hypogammaglobinemia. acquired h.… …
9deficiency — An insufficient quantity of some substance (as in dietary d. or hemoglobin d. in marrow aplasia); organization (as in mental d.); activity (as in enzyme d. or reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood), etc., of which the amount present is of …
10agammaglobulinemia — Absence of, or extremely low levels of, the gamma fraction of serum globulin; sometimes used loosely to denote absence of immunoglobulins in general. SEE ALSO: hypogammaglobulinemia. acquired a. SYN: common variable immunodeficiency. Bruton a. an …
