Usually means: Painful blisters caused by herpes.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word cold sores:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold sores: Merriam-Webster
  2. cold sores: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cold sores: Vocabulary.com
  4. cold sores: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. cold sores: Wiktionary
  6. Cold sores: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Cold sores: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cold sores: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold sores: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Cold sores: Merck Manuals
  3. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cold sores: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  5. Cold sores: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cold_sore as well.)

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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).
▸ Also see cold_sore


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