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