an illness that is easily spread from person to person, which affects the lungs and can sometimes cause death (the abbreviation for ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’) Topics Illnessc2嚴重急性呼吸綜合征(全寫爲 severe acute respiratory syndrome,通稱傳染性非典型肺炎,是可致命的傳染病) Oxford Collocations DictionarySARS is used before these nouns:- case