shingles

shin·gles  (shngglz)

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

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. Also called herpes zoster.

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[Middle English, alteration (influenced by Old French cengles, pl. of cengle, shingles, and by Old French sengle, single, chingle, belt) of Medieval Latin cingulus (translation of Greek zstr, girdle, shingles, from the fact that the inflammation often extends around the middle of the body), variant of Latin cingulum, girdle, from cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.]

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shingles

Noun

a disease causing a rash of small blisters along a nerve [Medieval Latin cingulum girdle]

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shingles  (shngglz)

See under herpes.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

shingles - eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia herpes zoster, zoster herpes - viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane

Translations

shingles [ˈʃɪŋglz] n (MED) → herpes msg

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shingles [ˈʃɪŋglz] n (Med) → zona m

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shingles [ˈʃɪŋglz] shingle npl (Med) → Gürtelrose f

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shingles [ˈʃɪŋglz] n (MED) → herpes zoster m

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shingles

n sg shingles [ˈʃiŋglz]

a kind of infectious disease causing a rash of painful blisters. aansteeklike siekte wat swere veroorsaak داء الحَصْبَه ،الحَصْباء، القوباء мед. херпес opar helvedesild die Gürtelrose έρπης herpes vöötohatis زونا vyöruusu zona שָלבֶקֶת חוֹגֶרֶת दाद pojasasti osip, zoster övsömör gatal-gatal ristill herpes zoster, (fuoco di Sant'Antonio) 帯状疱疹 dedervinė jostas roze penyakit kayap gordelroos helvetesild półpasiec zona zona zoster опоясывающий лишай opar pasasti izpuščaj vrsta osipa bältros โรคงูสวัด zona 帶狀皰疹 оперізувальний, поясуватий лишай نملئہ منطقی، خسرہ کے قسم کے دانے bệnh zona 带状疱疹