Complete Definition of "herpes zoster"

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herpes zoster

  1. pathology an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglion|ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and caused by reactivation of the poxvirus causing chicken pox.

See also
shingles

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