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Definition of Secondary immunodeficiency
1. Noun. (context: medicine) Immunodeficiency caused as a result of malnutrition or exposure to disease or a specific drug treatment. ¹
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Medical Definition of Secondary immunodeficiency
1. Immunodeficiency in which there is no evident defect in the lymphoid tissues, but rather hypercatabolism or loss of immunoglobulins such as occurs in familial idiopathic hypercatabolic hypoproteinaemia or in defects associated with the nephrotic syndrome. Synonym: secondary agammaglobulinaemia, secondary antibody deficiency, secondary hypogammaglobulinaemia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary Immunodeficiency
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