The precise type of opportunistic infection (bacterial, viral, fungal, or protozoan/parasitic) that occurs depends on the type and extent of immunologic alteration, whether it is cellular, humoral, phagocytic, or a combined defect; and on organisms present inside and outside the body.
Definition of clammy. clammier. ; clammiest. 1 : being damp, soft, sticky, and usually cool cold clammy hands clammy air. 2 : lacking normal human warmth the clammy atmosphere of an institution.
Hastily raising myself on one arm, I looked around, but all was dark; and it seemed to me as if the rain must have penetrated through the flooring of the room above, for some kind of moisture appeared to fall, drop by drop, upon my forehead, and when I passed my hand across my brow, I felt that it was wet and clammy.