zoster

/zos-ter/US // ˈzɒs tər //UK // (ˈzɒstə) //

带状疱疹,带状瘤,带状孢疹,带状腺炎

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Also called herpes zoster. Pathology. shingles.
- : Greek Antiquity. a belt or girdle.

The virus that causes chicken pox, varicella-zoster virus, or VZV for those in the know, is a tricky customer.
Shingles, shing′glz, n. popular name for the disease Herpes zoster.
I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.
It is only of recent years that any essential connection between zoster and neuralgia has been suspected.
In some of these instances the pocks appear in clusters of successive formation, looking not unlike patches of zoster.
It is a thick ribbed zoster that protects the hip joints of the king.