zoster
Also called herpes zoster. Pathology. shingles.
Greek Antiquity. a belt or girdle.
Origin of zoster
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How to use zoster in a sentence
The virus that causes chicken pox, varicella-zoster virus, or VZV for those in the know, is a tricky customer.
Barbara Walters Hit With Chicken Pox—a Rare Malady Among Octogenarians | Kent Sepkowitz | January 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShingles, shing′glz, n. popular name for the disease Herpes zoster.
I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.
Over the Teacups | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.It is only of recent years that any essential connection between zoster and neuralgia has been suspected.
Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it | Francis E. AnstieIn some of these instances the pocks appear in clusters of successive formation, looking not unlike patches of zoster.
It is a thick ribbed zoster that protects the hip joints of the king.
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for zoster
/ (ˈzɒstə) /
pathol short for herpes zoster
Origin of zoster
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