shingles Definition
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shingles
singular noun
- 1. medicine.
- The disease herpes zoster, caused by the chickenpox virus, in which acute inflammation of spinal nerve ganglia produces pain and then a series of blisters along the path of the nerve, especially in the area of the waist and ribs, but sometimes around the head and face.
