Anything that is not present at birth but develops some time
later. In medicine, the word "acquired" implies "new" or "added." An acquired condition
is "new" in the sense that it is not genetic (inherited) and "added" in the sense
that was not present at birth.
For example, AIDS (the acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is an acquired form
of immune deficiency due to the acquisition of HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus).
An acquired mutation is a change in a gene that occurs in a single cell after
the conception of the individual. That change is then passed along to all cells
descended from that cell. Acquired mutations are involved in the development of
cancer.
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