SARS

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SARS (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also Sars.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 182:

     SARS set off a panic about global spread and contagion.

   • 2020 January 24, Denise Grady, “Chicago woman is second patient in U.S. with Wuhan coronavirus”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Coronaviruses are worrying because epidemics caused by other members of the viral family, SARS and MERS, have had high death rates: 10 percent for SARS, and about 35 percent for MERS.

• Translingual: SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, SARSr-CoV
• → Chinese: SARS
• → Finnish: SARS
• → German: SARS
• → Portuguese: SARS

SARS

1. (Nigeria, law enforcement) Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption.
2. (South Africa) Initialism of South African Revenue Service.

• MERS
• COVID-19

• SSRA, Sras., SRAs, ASSR, RSAs

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From English SARS.

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SARS

1. (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS (“severe acute respiratory syndrome”) (a disease)
2. (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARS-CoV-1 (the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS)
3. (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARSr-CoV (the virus species that contains the SARS virus)

• Cantonese: 沙士 (saa¹ si^6-2)
• Mandarin: 非典 (fēidiǎn)

Borrowed from English SARS.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrs/,
• Rhymes: -ɑrs
• Syllabification^(key): SARS
• Hyphenation^(key): SARS

SARS

1. (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS: severe acute respiratory syndrome

The "severe acute respiratory syndrome" translates into Finnish as äkillinen vakava hengitystieoireyhtymä, but the term is seldom used. Usually the English initialism SARS is used as the Finnish name of this illness. An individual occurrence of SARS may be referred to as SARS-tapaus.

• SARS-keuhkokuume