herpes zoster
English
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Noun
[edit]- (pathology) 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 primoinfection.
- 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 98:
- From the description, Letha felt sure Jane had herpes zoster, or shingles, which often strikes cancer patients or others with depressed immune systems. Jane spent another week in the Bubble, treated with acyclovir.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]acute viral inflammation — see shingles
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English herpes zoster.
Noun
[edit]- (pathology) herpes zoster, shingles.
- Synonyms: cacar api, cacar ular
Further reading
[edit]- “herpes zoster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.