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Meaning of herpes zoster

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

herpes zoster

noun

Definitions

  1. An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains, caused by reactivation of the human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus, that also causes chicken pox as primo-infection.

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