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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

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AIDS-like disease (illness) (syndrome) AIDS-related complex AIDS-related conditions ARC Pre-AIDS Prodromal-AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection codes and new codes for Kaposi's sarcoma

requirements of AIDS patients in terms of physician practice experience with AIDS or AIDS-related complex (ARC) cases, patients positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and patients at risk; and (2) physician knowledge, skills, education, and attitudes regarding AIDS or ARC and HIV ("competence" measures).

AIDS in California family medicine: changing experiences, knowledge, and geographic distribution

Research described in June at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS suggests a recent surge of B-cell lymphoma cases among people with long-standing symptoms of AIDS or its precursor, AIDS-related complex (ARC).

Lymphoma enigma: AIDS-linked tumors may defy traditional views of cancer genesis

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predict over 270,000 Americans will have full-blown acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by 1992.1 As this number continues to grow, more primary care physicians are going to be caring for HIV-infected individuals, AIDS-related complex (ARC) patients, and AIDS patients, as well as family members of such groups.

Assessing primary care physicians' knowledge about HIV transmission

Graham and his team studied 1,195 HIV-infected men, some with AIDS-related complex (ARC) and others with no symptoms of the disease.

Some HIV-infected people forgo AZT

By 1988-89, two to four "differential' HIV antibody tests will emerge, which may help answer how soon patients exposed to the virus are likely to contract AIDS-related complex and how severe their illness may be.

After DRG austerity, the lab field refits

Cigarette smoking may speed the progression to AIDS in some people infected with HIV, according to scientists who studied 387 HIV-infected men, including some who were asymptomatic and others who had AIDS-related complex.

Smoking may hasten AIDS development

Two nurses gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a 28-year-old hemophiliac with AIDS-related complex who had a cardiopulmonary arrest while hospitalized for hemophilic arthropathy.

The risk of AIDS infection from casual job contact

Montagnier's group studied blood samples from 97 people with either AIDS-related complex (ARC) or full-blown AIDS, finding that 37 tested positive for mycoplasma.

Data and dispute mark AIDS meeting

The extent to which transfusion-transmitted HIV is perceived as a problem with the safety of the nation's blood supply depends on several variables: the actual number of infections transmitted, the percentage of transfusion recipients who survive long enough after transfusion to seroconvert and to develop AIDS-related complex or AIDS, the percentage of transfusion recipients who are tested several months following transfusion to determine whether they were indeed infected, and the attention that these cases receive from the medical and lay press.

Can we keep our blood supply safe from AIDS?

Schooley and 21 colleagues tracked the effects of soluble CD4 injected into 25 patients with AIDS or advanced AIDS-related complex (ARC).