shingles
a disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, especially by reactivated virus in an older person, characterized by skin eruptions and pain along the course of involved sensory nerves.
Origin of shingles
1- Also called herpes zoster.
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How to use shingles in a sentence
The woman had shingles and severe arthritis, and her eyesight and hearing were diminishing.
The Nurse Coaching People Through Death by Starvation | Nick Tabor | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe swapped fish caught in the Potomac for shingles, planks, nails, and rum for the field hands at harvest time.
Washington Was Broke? Why Founding Fathers Were Strapped for Cash | Willard Sterne Randall | February 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTLoss is grief, worry, insomnia, shingles, weeping, and just plain needing someone who is no longer there.
It was built of logs and roofed with rough cedar shingles hand-split on the spot.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossRed or giant cedar, which rivals the Douglas fir in girth, is plentiful, and is used for shingles as well as for interior work.
You would think that a man with a wooden leg was having a fit on the shingles right over our heads.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurThe polite thing for him to do would be to step down on the shingles and walk around them, but does he do it?
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurHe gives the nearest youngster a vicious peck that makes him jump in the air and land sprawling a few feet down on the shingles.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthur
British Dictionary definitions for shingles
/ (ˈʃɪŋɡəlz) /
(functioning as singular) an acute viral disease affecting the ganglia of certain nerves, characterized by inflammation, pain, and skin eruptions along the course of the affected nerve: Technical names: herpes zoster, zoster
Origin of shingles
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for shingles
[ shĭng′gəlz ]
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