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Herpes zoster
Meaning
Noun
●
In Pathology & Viral diseases:
An
acute
viral
inflammation
of the
sensory
ganglia
of
spinal
and
cranial nerves
associated with a
vesicular
eruption
and
neuralgic
pains
,
caused
by
reactivation
of the Human
herpes
virus
3, in
genus
Varicellovirus, that also
causes
chicken pox
as primo-infection.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Synonyms
Shingles
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