SHINGLES
\ʃˈɪŋɡə͡lz], \ʃˈɪŋɡəlz], \ʃ_ˈɪ_ŋ_ɡ_əl_z]\
Definitions of SHINGLES
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
By Oddity Software
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A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
By Noah Webster.
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An acute infectious, usually self-limited, disease believed to represent activation of latent varicella-zoster virus (HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN) in those who have been rendered partially immune after a previous attack of chickenpox. It involves the sensory ganglia and their areas of innervation and is characterized by severe neuralgic pain along the distribution of the affected nerve and crops of clustered vesicles over the area. (From Dorland, 27th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Slabs or boards of wood used in roofing instead of tiles or slates; in geol., loose angular fragments of stone-gravel being rounded fragments.
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An eruptive disease spreading round the body like a girdle, called also herpes or tetter.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
Word of the day
Under-arm
- Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above elbow, that is, swung far out from body; underhand. Cf. Over-and Round-Arm.