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HIV-2

Specialty Definition: HIV-2

DomainDefinition

Health

An HIV species related to HIV-1 but carrying different antigenic components and with differing nucleic acid composition. It shares serologic reactivity and sequence homology with the simian Lentivirus SIV and infects only T4-lymphocytes expressing the CD4 phenotypic marker. (references)

Medicine

Retrovirus which is found mainly in West Africa and which is genetically more closely related to the simian retrovirus of the macaccus SIV(simian immunodeficiency virus), but whose biological behaviour in vitro and in vivo is similar to that of HIV-1. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: HIV-2

Specialty definitions using "HIV-2": Gene Products, vpu, Genes, vpuSaquinavir, SIV. (references)

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Usage Frequency: HIV-2

"HIV-2" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HIV-2" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HIV-2

Language Translations for "HIV-2"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

human immundefekt virus-2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Humaan immuundeficiintievirus type 2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2), HIV-2. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

HIV-2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2), ihmisen immuunikatovirus (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

French

  

HIV-2, virus de l'immunodéficience humaine de type 2. (various references)

   

German

  

erworbenes Immunodefizienzvirus Typ 2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

HIV-2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2), ιός ανοσοανεπάρκειας ανθρώπου τύπου 2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

Italian

  

HIV-2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2), virus dell'immunodeficienza umana di tipo 2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iv-2hay

   

Portuguese

  

vírus da imunodeficiência humana do tipo 2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana del tipo-2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

humant immunbristvirus typ 2 (human immunodeficiency virus type 2), HIV typ II (human immunodeficiency virus type 2, human T-cell leukemia virus type 4, human T-IV cell lymphotropic virus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HIV-2

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "2-h-i-v"

-2 letters: hi.

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Alternative Orthography: HIV-2


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 49 56 2D 32

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001001 01010110 00101101 00110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#86 &#45 &#50

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0056 002D 0032

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4243561520

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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