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acute
zoster
herpes
saint anthony's fire
cranial
zosteroid
varicellovirus
sensory
inflammation
spinal
chicken pox
shingles
viral
ramsay hunt syndrome
vesicular
brivudine
formication
primo infection
valaciclovir
ganglion
zosteriform
neuralgic
zoster sine herpete
Definitions:
Noun
herpes zoster
zoster
shingles
Definition: eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia
Definition: 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.