Usually means: Painful viral infection, causes shingles.
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  1. herpes zoster: Merriam-Webster
  2. herpes zoster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. herpes zoster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. herpes zoster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. herpes zoster: Vocabulary.com
  6. herpes zoster: Wordnik
  7. herpes zoster: Wiktionary
  8. herpes zoster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. herpes zoster: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. herpes zoster: Dictionary.com
  11. Herpes zoster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. herpes zoster: Rhymezone
  13. Herpes zoster: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. herpes zoster: FreeDictionary.org
  15. herpes zoster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. herpes zoster: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. herpes zoster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. herpes zoster: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Herpes zoster: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Herpes zoster (shingles): Merck Manuals
  7. Herpes zoster: MedFriendly Glossary
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  12. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  13. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  14. Disorder Index (No longer online)
  15. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  16. herpes zoster: Medical dictionary
  17. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  18. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  19. Herpes zoster: Drug Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (herpes zoster)

noun:  (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.

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