hiv
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/ˌeɪtʃˌaɪˈviː/
Definition of hiv
5 senses · 1 part of speech
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.
“There have been other drugs since reticulose that I became aware of the successes of, some even able to claim "cure," even turning people from HIV-positive to negative.”
“Accordingly, we varied HIV transmission probability per coital act, duration of each HIV stage, frequency of coital acts per HIV stage, duration of partnership, degree of assortativeness, scale parameter in the gamma distribution of the population across the risk groups, and exponent parameter in the power-law function of the distribution of sexual-risk behavior.”
“A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.”
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noun
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.
“There have been other drugs since reticulose that I became aware of the successes of, some even able to claim "cure," even turning people from HIV-positive to negative.”
“Accordingly, we varied HIV transmission probability per coital act, duration of each HIV stage, frequency of coital acts per HIV stage, duration of partnership, degree of assortativeness, scale parameter in the gamma distribution of the population across the risk groups, and exponent parameter in the power-law function of the distribution of sexual-risk behavior.”
“A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.”
- (broadly, uncountable)Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of header isolation valve.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of helium isolation valve.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of hydraulic isolation valve.
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