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 Dictionary entry overview: What does SA mean? 

• SA (noun)
  The noun SA has 1 sense:

1. Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943

  Familiarity information: SA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

SA; Storm Troops; Sturmabteilung

Hypernyms ("SA" is a kind of...):

militia; reserves (civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army)

Meronyms (members of "SA"):

Brownshirt (a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms)

 Context examples 

Cohesin subunit SA-2 (1231 aa, ~141 kDa) is encoded by the human STAG2 gene.

(Cohesin Subunit SA-2, NCI Thesaurus)

The mice showed significant protection against tumor development, with the greatest protection when challenged two weeks after treatment with SA-4-1BBL.

(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Flu viruses adapted to humans and other mammals bind preferentially to a type of SA called alpha 2,6 SA (α2,6 SA), which is the predominant form found in the upper respiratory tract of mammals.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)

When tea was over and Mrs. Fairfax had taken her knitting, and I had assumed a low seat near her, and Adele, kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable—when he said he supposed the old lady was all right now that she had got her adopted daughter back again, and added that he saw Adele was prete a croquer sa petite maman Anglaise—I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The cancer immunoprevention effect generated by SA-4-1BBL lasted more than eight weeks.

(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Flu infection in mammals starts when an influenza virus protein called hemagglutinin binds to sialic acid (SA) molecules on the tops of chain-like proteins that thickly line tissue throughout the respiratory tract.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)

Surprisingly, when the researchers treated normal healthy mice with SA-4-1BBL alone, the mice were protected when the researchers later exposed them to different types of tumor cells.

(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The soft palate, which has surfaces facing both the mouth and nasal cavity, stood out as the prime location for an abundance of virus containing the single genetic reversion that allows it to bind to mammalian-type SA.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)

In the research, mice that had never had cancer were treated with SA-4-1BBL alone, then challenged with cervical and lung cancer tumor cells at various time intervals.

(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They discovered that airborne transmission was associated with a single genetic change in the engineered virus’s hemagglutinin that gave it the ability to bind to mammalian-type α2,6 SA of a particular class (long chain) without the loss of the other introduced changes that had made it a α2,3 SA binding type.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)