Immunodeficiency

Definition: Immunodeficiency

Immunodeficiency

Noun

1. Immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced.

Specialty Definitions: Immunodeficiency

Domain	Definitions
Health	The decreased ability of the body to fight infection and disease. (references)
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Crosswords: Immunodeficiency

English words defined with "immunodeficiency": human immunodeficiency virus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "immunodeficiency": Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS-Associated Nephropathy, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections ♦ Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous, Cercocebus atys, Common Variable Immunodeficiency ♦ Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Genes, nef, Genes, rev, Genes, tat, Genes, vif, Genes, vpr ♦ HIV Antibodies, HIV antibody, HIV Core Protein p24, HIV Enteropathy, HIV Envelope Protein gp120, HIV Envelope Protein gp160, HIV Envelope Protein gp41, HIV Infections, HIV Integrase, HIV Protease, HIV Seropositivity, HIV Seroprevalence, HIV-1, HIV-2, human immunodeficiency virus type 1, human immunodeficiency virus type 2 ♦ Immunocompromised Host, immunodeficiency syndrome, Immunodeficiency Virus, Bovine, Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline ♦ Mice, SCID, Monitoring, Immunologic, Murine Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Receptors, HIV, Retroviruses Type D, Simian, Retroviruses, Simian ♦ SAIDS Vaccines, Saints, Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, SIV, Streptodornase and Streptokinase ♦ T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive ♦ Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Immunodeficiency

Domain	Title
References	The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Primary Immunodeficiency (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Immunodeficiency (reference) Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Innovative Techniques for Isolation and Identification (Monographs in Virology, Vol 18) (reference) Immunodeficiency and Skin (Current Problems in Dermatology, Vol 18) (reference) Immunodeficiency in Hiv Infection and AIDS (reference) Progress in Immunodeficiency VI (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Immunodeficiency

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A family history of primary immunodeficiency. (references)
		Such an unusual infection may be the tip-off to an immunodeficiency. (references)
		Not long ago, little could be done to actually cure an immunodeficiency. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Immunodeficiency

"Immunodeficiency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.92% of the time. "Immunodeficiency" is used about 49 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.92%	47	49,740
Noun (proper)	4.08%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	49	N/A

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

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Expressions: Immunodeficiency

Expressions using "immunodeficiency": Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Common Variable Immunodeficiency ♦ Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ human immunodeficiency virus ♦ human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ♦ human immunodeficiency virus type 2 ♦ immunodeficiency syndrome ♦ Murine Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Severe Combined Immunodeficiency ♦ Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "immunodeficiency": immunodeficiency-related.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Immunodeficiency

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
immunodeficiency	18
common variable immunodeficiency	13
primary immunodeficiency	12
severe combined immunodeficiency	7
disease immunodeficiency	5
immunodeficiency severe	5
immunodeficiency simian virus	4
immunodeficiency syndrome	2
immunodeficiency disorder	2
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Modern Translations: Immunodeficiency

Language		Translations for "immunodeficiency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		免役缺陷. (various references)

Danish		immundeficiens (immune deficiency), immundefekt (deficiency disease, immune deficiency). (various references)

Dutch		immuundeficiëntie (immune deficiency), gebrek van het immuunsysteem. (various references)

Finnish		immuunivajavuustila (immune deficiency), immuunipuutos (immune deficiency). (various references)

French		immuno-déficience, déficit immunitaire (immune deficiency), déficience immunitaire (immune deficiency). (various references)

German		immunschwäche (immune deficiency). (various references)

Greek		ανοσολογική ανεπάρκεια (immune deficiency), ανοσοανεπάρκεια (deficiency disease, immune deficiency). (various references)

Italian		immunodeficienza (immune deficiency). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		免疫不全症 (immunodeficiency disease). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		め�"えきふぜ�"しょう (immunodeficiency disease). (various references)

Korean		면역 부� �. (various references)

Pig Latin		immunodeficiencyay.(various references)

Portuguese		imunodeficiência (immune deficiency), deficiência imunológica (immune deficiency). (various references)

Russian		мед)иммунодефицит иммунодефицитный. (various references)

Spanish		inmunodeficiencia (immune deficiency), deficiencia inmunitaria (immune deficiency). (various references)

Swedish		immundefekt (immune deficiency), immunbrist (immune deficiency). (various references)

Thai		เฮชไอวี (human immunodeficiency virus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Immunodeficiency

Misspellings
	"Immunodeficiency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: immunodeiciency, immunodifficiency, immunodificiency, immunoefficiency. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Immunodeficiency"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "immunodeficiency" (pronounced i'myuwnōdi'fi"shunsē)
7	-f i" sh u n s ē	deficiency, efficiency, inefficiency, proficiency, sufficiency.
4	-u n s ē	absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy.
3	-n s ē	bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy.
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Anagrams: Immunodeficiency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-f-i-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-u-y"
	-5 letters: munificence.
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