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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See shingles.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and caused by reactivation of the poxvirus causing chicken pox.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. same as shingles; -- a form of herpes caused by the varicella-zoster virus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a herpes virus that causes shingles
  2. n. eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia

Etymologies

  1. New Latin herpēs zōstēr : Latin herpēs, herpes + Greek zōstēr, girdle.

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