title: AICD
text: # AICD
  
  The acronym AICD may refer to:
  
  * Automated Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
  * Amyloid precursor protein Intracellular Cytoplasmic/C-terminal Domain, the smaller cleavage product of APP by gamma-secretase
  * Australian Institute of Company Directors, an organisation supporting company directors in Australia
  * Activation-induced cell death (AICD), important for maintaining T cell homeostasis of the immune system. Autoreactive T cells undergo apoptosis through AICD both from the thymus and periphery
  