Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - shingles
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Shingles
shingles
noun plural but singular in construction Etymology: Middle English schingles, by folk etymology from Medieval Latin cingulus, from Latin cingulum girdle — more at cingulum Date: 14th century an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox — called also herpes zoster, zoster
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n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.) an acute painful viral inflammation of the nerve ganglia, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the middle of the body. Etymology: ME f. med.L cingulus f. L cingulum girdle f. cingere gird ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n a disease caused by an infection of the nerve endings, which produces painful red spots ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., from M.L. cingulus (loan-translation of Gk. zoster "girdle"), variant of L. cingulum "girdle," from cingere "to gird." The inflammation often extends around the middle of the body, like a girdle. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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