severe acquired respiratory syndrome
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome — SARS redirects here. For other uses, see SARS (disambiguation). Further information: Progress of the SARS outbreak Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Classification and external resources SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV) is causative of the syndrome … Wikipedia
Respiratory disease — Classification and external resources Micrograph of an emphysematous lung; emphysema is a common respiratory disease, strongly associated with smoking. H E stain. ICD … Wikipedia
syndrome — syndromic /sin drom ik/, adj. /sin drohm, dreuhm/, n. 1. Pathol., Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like. 2. a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc. 3.… … Universalium
Syndrome — In medicine and psychology, the term syndrome refers to the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs (observed by a physician), symptoms (reported by the patient), phenomena or characteristics that often occur together, so… … Wikipedia
Community-acquired pneumonia — (CAP) is a term used to describe one of several diseases in which individuals who have not recently been hospitalized develop an infection of the lungs (pneumonia). CAP is a common illness and can affect people of all ages. CAP often causes… … Wikipedia
Hospital-acquired pneumonia — (HAP) or nosocomial pneumonia refers to any pneumonia contracted by a patient in a hospital at least 48–72 hours after being admitted. It is usually caused by a bacterial infection, rather than a virus.[1][2] HAP is the second most common… … Wikipedia
respiratory disease — ▪ human disease Introduction any of the diseases and disorders that affect human respiration (respiration, human). Diseases of the respiratory system may affect any of the structures and organs that have to do with breathing, including the… … Universalium
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
SARS — severe acquired respiratory syndrome an atypical pneumonia caused by a virus, SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV), that first appeared in November 2002 in Guangdong province, China; over the next few months it spread to more than 20 countries in Asia,… … The new mediacal dictionary
Sudden infant death syndrome — Classification and external resources ICD 10 R95 ICD 9 798.0 … Wikipedia
