ZOSTER
\zˈɒstə], \zˈɒstə], \z_ˈɒ_s_t_ə]\
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By Princeton University
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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)
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By William R. Warner
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Shingles; an acute vesicular eruption usually painful, characterized by the development of groups of herpetic (see herpes) vesicles corresponding in situation to the cutaneous distribution of a nerve. So called Because it tends to encircle the body like a girdle. See herpes zoster, under separate heading. [Gr., zoster, from zonnunai, to gird.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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