acquired (redirected from acquire)

acquired /ac·quired/ (ah-kwird´) incurred as a result of factors acting from or originating outside the organism; not inherited.

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ac·quired (-kwrd)

adj.

1. Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.

2. Developed in response to an antigen, as resistance to a disease by vaccination or previous infection.

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acquired

incurred as a result of factors acting from or originating outside the organism; not inherited.

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acquired bleeding

a tendency to bleed caused by factors other than inherited and congenital ones. Includes dicoumarol and warfarin poisonings, nutritional deficiency of vitamin K, liver disease and autoimmune thrombocytopenias.

feline acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

see feline immunodeficiency virus.