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严重急性呼吸综合征(全写为 severe acute respiratory syndrome,通称传染性非典型肺炎,是可致命的传染病) Oxford Collocations DictionarySARS is used before these nouns:- case