Usually means: Painful blister caused by herpes.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word cold sore:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold sore: Merriam-Webster
  2. cold sore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold sore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cold sore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cold sore: Vocabulary.com
  6. cold-sore, cold sore: Wordnik
  7. cold sore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cold sore: Wiktionary
  9. cold sore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cold sore: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cold sore: Dictionary.com
  12. Cold sore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. cold sore: Rhymezone
  14. cold sore: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cold sore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cold sore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. cold sore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold sore: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold sore: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold sore: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Cold sore, Sore, cold: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  5. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  6. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  7. cold sore, sore, cold: Medical dictionary
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. Cold sore, Sore, cold: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold sore: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cold_sores as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cold sore)

noun:  (pathology) A small bump (namely a vesicle) on the lips resulting from infection by herpes simplex viruses (mostly HHV1 but also HHV2).

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