Quizlet hiv/aids

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  1. (Human Immunodeficiency Virus): this is the word for HIV
  2. acuired immunodeficiency symptoms: not found
  3. AIDS: a syndrome caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that renders immune cells ineffective, permitting opportunistic infections, malignancies, and neurologic diseases to develop; transmitted sexually or through contaminated blood, a syndrome caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that renders immune cells ineffective, permitting opportunistic infections, malignancies, and neurologic diseases to develop; transmitted sexually or through contaminated blood
  4. b cells: a white blood cell that make antibodies
  5. destroys the immune system: By geting deseases like HIV then turns to aids
  6. HIV: the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
  7. How HIV is transmitted: threw....sharing needles for drugs and other substances, unprotected sex, or you can be born with it if your infected pregnant mom passes it to you unborn.
  8. Immune system: a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response
  9. prevention of hiv: stay way from sharing needles for drugs and other substances, unprotected sex, or you can be born with it if your infected pregnant mom passes it to you unborn.
  10. Rapid Tests: a test for hiv that only takes 20 minutes
  11. t cells: an immune system cell that coordinates the immune system and attacks many infected cells