Shingles

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  • noun plural. An acute viral infection characterized by inflammation of the sensory ganglia of certain spinal or cranial nerves and the eruption of vesicles along the affected nerve path. It usually strikes only one side of the body and is often accompanied by severe neuralgia.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A cutaneous disease, herpes zoster. See herpes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
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  • noun. herpes zoster.
  • noun. Plural form of shingle.
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  • noun. eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia
    • Word Usage
    "Because the virus that causes shingles is already in a person's body, others cannot get shingles from a person with shingles."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    herpes  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    gingles  jingles  mingles  singles  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    African lethargy  Asiatic cholera  Chagres fever  German measles  Haverhill fever  
    verb-stem
    shingle  
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