SARS
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
SARS (uncountable)
- (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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Translingual: SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2, SARSr-CoV
- → Chinese: SARS
- → Finnish: SARS
- → German: SARS
- → Portuguese: SARS
Translations
severe acute respiratory syndrome
Proper noun
SARS
- (Nigeria, law enforcement) Initialism of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a Nigerian police unit known for police brutality and corruption
- (South Africa) Initialism of South African Revenue Service.
Chinese
Noun
SARS
- (medicine, pathology, virology) SARS (“severe acute respiratory syndrome”) (a disease)
- (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARS-CoV-1 (the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS)
- (medicine, pathology, virology, informal) SARSr-CoV (the virus species that contains the SARS virus)
Finnish
Usage notes
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.
Declension
| Inflection of SARS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | SARS | — | ||
| genitive | SARSin | — | ||
| partitive | SARSia | — | ||
| illative | SARSiin | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | SARS | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | SARS | — | |
| gen. | SARSin | |||
| genitive | SARSin | — | ||
| partitive | SARSia | — | ||
| inessive | SARSissa | — | ||
| elative | SARSista | — | ||
| illative | SARSiin | — | ||
| adessive | SARSilla | — | ||
| ablative | SARSilta | — | ||
| allative | SARSille | — | ||
| essive | SARSina | — | ||
| translative | SARSiksi | — | ||
| abessive | SARSitta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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