shingles
- noun
- /ˈʃɪŋɡəlz/
- Specialized
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herpes zóster
- After experiencing a painful rash, she learned that she had developed shingles.
I had appendicitis and and I had shingles in one eye.
- I had appendicitis and and I had shingles in one eye.
- Nick, it seems like you have a condition or like you've got, I don't know, shingles or something like that.
- And so we got documented things like he told his grandmother that she was going to get chicken pox and then a couple of weeks later she broke out in shingles.
- She got shingles, she got COVID, she lost my dad, she's depressed.
- We're talking in shore stands, low cut shawls and shots, shots, shots, COVID, flu and shingles.
Examples
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Well, the question is what is your opinion on shingles vaccines?
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I had appendicitis and and I had shingles in one eye.
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Nick, it seems like you have a condition or like you've got, I don't know, shingles or something like that.
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How many of you think that this was no natural phenomenon like the flu or shingles or scurvy like a pirate would get?
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She got shingles, she got COVID, she lost my dad, she's depressed.
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The next variance is going to be COVID featuring shingles, the Skrillex mix, scientists believe.
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But you could also mention polio, tetanus, rabies, influenza, diphtheria, shingles and a host of other diseases.
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The doctor advised him to seek treatment quickly, as shingles can be quite debilitating.
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Many adults who had chickenpox as children are at risk of developing shingles later in life.
Synonyms
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A painful skin rash in a band that happens when the chickenpox virus becomes active again
A painful skin rash with blisters that follows a nerve path
A painful skin rash with blisters caused by the same virus as chickenpox
How Painful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shingles comes from the Greek word zoster, meaning 'belt', because the painful rash often appears as a band or 'belt' on one side of the body, so the name describes how the illness looks.