severe acute respiratory syndrome
Definition
- Noun:
- A serious respiratory illness: "severe acute respiratory syndrome" is the name of a specific, often severe, respiratory disease. It is caused by a coronavirus and is characterized by symptoms including high fever, cough, and breathing difficulties which can progress to pneumonia.
Usage
- As a noun (typically uncountable): The term is used to refer to the disease itself, often abbreviated as SARS.
- The hospital implemented strict isolation procedures for cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
- The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome caused global concern.
Advanced Usage
- "SARS": This is the universal acronym for "severe acute respiratory syndrome" and is more commonly used in medical and general contexts.
- SARS-CoV is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome.
- Used in epidemiological contexts to describe outbreaks, transmission, and containment.
- Public health measures successfully contained the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Variants and Related Words
- SARS (noun): The standard acronym.
- SARS-CoV (noun): The specific coronavirus identified as the causative agent.
- SARS-CoV-2 (noun): The virus responsible for COVID-19; a related but distinct coronavirus from the one that causes SARS.
Synonyms
- SARS (acronym).
Related Terms and Context
- Pneumonia: A potential severe complication of SARS.
- Quarantine: A public health measure critically used during SARS outbreaks.
- Outbreak: A term frequently associated with the emergence and spread of the disease.
- Zoonotic disease: SARS is considered a zoonosis, believed to have jumped from animals to humans.
Noun
- a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal
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