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Herpes zoster has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia

2

a herpes virus that causes shingles

3

An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains, caused by reactivation of the human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus, that also causes chicken pox as primo-infection.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
herpes
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
herpes varicella zoster
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