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severe acute respiratory syndromes

severe acute respiratory syndromes is the plural of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Meaning of severe acute respiratory syndrome

Noun

severe acute respiratory syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural severe acute respiratory syndromes)

  1. A form of pneumonia resulting from infection by a coronavirus characterized by fever, myalgia, lethargy and coughing and which can be fatal.
    • (b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon...2014 July 31, Barack Obama, “Executive Order—Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases”, in https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House
    Synonyms:
    SARS

Questions about severe acute respiratory syndromes

What is severe acute respiratory syndromes the plural of?
Severe acute respiratory syndromes is the plural of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Words near severe acute respiratory syndromes in the dictionary

  1. severation
  2. severaunce
  3. severaunces
  4. severe
  5. severe acute respiratory syndrome
  6. severe acute respiratory syndromes
  7. severe clear
  8. severe combined immunodeficiencies
  9. severe combined immunodeficiency
  10. severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
  11. severe gale

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