shingles

Definitions


[ˈʃɪŋɡlz], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a painful acute inflammation of the nerve ganglia, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the middle of the body. It is caused by the same virus as chickenpox


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Origin:
late Middle English: representing medieval Latin cingulus, variant of Latin cingulum ‘girdle’, from cingere ‘gird’




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