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.

• 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

• MERS
• COVID-19

• ASSR, RSAs

From English SARS.

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 si6-2”)
• Mandarin: 非典 (“fēidiǎn”)

Borrowed from English 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