immunodeficiency
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- n immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced
- In 1978, her daughter Julia was born with severe combined immunodeficiency, which required her to be kept in a completely sterile hospital environment--like the "boy in the bubble.
- The source of the woman's suffering: the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, virus.
- The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that researchers rarely talk about curing infected patients, focusing instead on treatment and .