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complex

adjective abstruse, bewildering, chaotic, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, difficult, elaborated, enigmatic, entangled, flexuous, impenetrable, implicated, inextricable, inscrutable, interlaced, interwoven, intricate, involuted, involved, irreducible, kaleidoscopic, knotted, labyrinthine, mingled, muddled, multiplex, obscure, perplexing, recondite, sinuous, snarled, tangled, tortuous, unarranged, unclassified, unfathomable, unorganized, varied
Associated concepts: complex issues to be tried

complex

(Development), noun aggregate, association, collectivity, compages, composite, compound, conglomerate, conglomeration, group, network, organization, structure, system, totality, unity
Associated concepts: building complex, industrial complex, residential housing complex

complex

(Entanglement), noun clutter, complexus, confusion, convolution, derangement, difficulty, disarray, disorder, disorganization, enmeshment, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, labyrinth, maze, muddle, multiplex, snag, snarl, tangle, twist

References in periodicals archive ?

An estimated 100,000 to 150,000 other people in the United States have either AIDS-related complex or AIDS-related diseases.

AIDS and the lab: infection control guidelines; with recommended precautions, laboratory personnel face no risk of contracting AIDS through on-the-job exposure

The new finding complements an earlier study showing zidovudine slows disease progression in HIV-infected people who have AIDS-related complex (ARC), an early stage of AIDS (SN: 8/12/89, p.

Early AZT use slows progression to AIDS

Although the ELISA test has, in effect, eliminated the AIDS risk in transfused blood, no one knows exactly how to interpret the results in individual patients: It is not a test for the AIDS-related complex (ARC), AIDS, or future disease, although a positive reaction indicates that a person has probably been infected with HTLV-III.

What every laboratorian should know about AIDS

For example, both recommend that the diagnosis categroy called AIDS-related complex (ARC) be discarded, and that public-health attention be widened from the current focus on AIDS to include all stages of HIV infection.

Pessimistic outlook in AIDS reports

Speaking on AIDS public policy at this week's meeting, he said accumulating evidence shows that once an HIV-infected person begins to show symptoms associated with the condition called AIDS-related complex (ARC), eventual death from AIDS appears certain.

AIDS virus in bone, vaccine on trial

included 20 AIDS or AIDS-related complex (ARC) patients given ddC, plus another six patients given zidovudine alternating with ddC.

HIV-2 case found, AIDS drug tested

In the group with fully developed AIDS, the impairment rate was 87 percent; AIDS-related complex (ARC), 54 percent; HIV positive, 44 percent; and HIV negative (controls), 9 percent.

Early HIV effects on nervous system found

Freeman also studied 13 patients with ARC, or AIDS-related complex, which can develop into AIDS and which typically is characterized by fatigue, weight loss and swollen glands.