# 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.
** 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.

#### Derived terms

* SARS mask

#### Descendants

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

#### Translations
### 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.

### See also

* MERS
* COVID-19

### Anagrams

* SSRA, Sras., SRAs, ASSR, RSAs

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### Etymology

From English SARS.

### 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)

#### Synonyms

* Cantonese: 沙士 (saa$^1$ si$^{6-2}$)
* Mandarin: 非典 (fēidiǎn)

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English SARS.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɑrs/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝rs̠]
* Rhymes: -ɑrs
* Hyphenation: SARS

### Noun

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

#### 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

Possessive forms of SARS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
SARSini
accusative
nom.
SARSini
gen.
SARSini
genitive
SARSini
partitive
SARSiani
inessive
SARSissani
elative
SARSistani
illative
SARSiini
adessive
SARSillani
ablative
SARSiltani
allative
SARSilleni
essive
SARSinani
translative
SARSikseni
abessive
SARSittani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
SARSisi
accusative
nom.
SARSisi
gen.
SARSisi
genitive
SARSisi
partitive
SARSiasi
inessive
SARSissasi
elative
SARSistasi
illative
SARSiisi
adessive
SARSillasi
ablative
SARSiltasi
allative
SARSillesi
essive
SARSinasi
translative
SARSiksesi
abessive
SARSittasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
SARSimme
accusative
nom.
SARSimme
gen.
SARSimme
genitive
SARSimme
partitive
SARSiamme
inessive
SARSissamme
elative
SARSistamme
illative
SARSiimme
adessive
SARSillamme
ablative
SARSiltamme
allative
SARSillemme
essive
SARSinamme
translative
SARSiksemme
abessive
SARSittamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
SARSinne
accusative
nom.
SARSinne
gen.
SARSinne
genitive
SARSinne
partitive
SARSianne
inessive
SARSissanne
elative
SARSistanne
illative
SARSiinne
adessive
SARSillanne
ablative
SARSiltanne
allative
SARSillenne
essive
SARSinanne
translative
SARSiksenne
abessive
SARSittanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
SARSinsa
accusative
nom.
SARSinsa
gen.
SARSinsa
genitive
SARSinsa
partitive
SARSiaan SARSiansa
inessive
SARSissaan SARSissansa
elative
SARSistaan SARSistansa
illative
SARSiinsa
adessive
SARSillaan SARSillansa
ablative
SARSiltaan SARSiltansa
allative
SARSilleen SARSillensa
essive
SARSinaan SARSinansa
translative
SARSikseen SARSiksensa
abessive
SARSittaan SARSittansa
instructive
comitative

#### Synonyms

* SARS-keuhkokuume