shingles
IPA: ʃˈɪŋgʌɫz
noun
- (pathology, informal) Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.
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Examples of "shingles" in Sentences
- There are shingles on the adobe.
- "Those are what they call shingles, my lad," said Gunson.
- He had something similar to what doctors now call shingles.
- It occurs in shingles, because the virus that causes the illness, varicella, nests in the nerves.
- Adults who had chickenpox as a child are at risk for shingles, which is caused by the same virus.
- As for chicken pox, once you have had it you can get shingles, which is a most unpleasant disease - and one which can recur.
- Because the virus that causes shingles is already in a person's body, others cannot get shingles from a person with shingles.
- Architect-couple Michael Morris and Yoshiko Satori built a modern getaway on Shelter Island, N.Y. It's their answer to what they describe as the "shingles on steroids" homes in the Hamptons.
- City Police showed up Monday afternoon at the cemetery to find a hired worker peeling some of the worn shingles from the caretaker's house roof to make way for some long-needed repairs to the old, vacant and decaying property.
- You cannot get shingles from someone who has shingles; however, because shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox, you can get chickenpox if you have not had chickenpox disease or a vaccine that provided protective immunity.
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