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shingles
[ shing-guhlz ]
noun
- a disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, especially by reactivated virus in an older person, characterized by skin eruptions and pain along the course of involved sensory nerves.
shingles
/ ˈʃɪŋɡəlz /
noun
- functioning as singular an acute viral disease affecting the ganglia of certain nerves, characterized by inflammation, pain, and skin eruptions along the course of the affected nerve Technical namesherpes zosterzoster
shingles
/ shĭng′gəlz /
- See under herpes
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of shingles1
Example Sentences
The woman had shingles and severe arthritis, and her eyesight and hearing were diminishing.
He swapped fish caught in the Potomac for shingles, planks, nails, and rum for the field hands at harvest time.
Loss is grief, worry, insomnia, shingles, weeping, and just plain needing someone who is no longer there.
It was built of logs and roofed with rough cedar shingles hand-split on the spot.
Red or giant cedar, which rivals the Douglas fir in girth, is plentiful, and is used for shingles as well as for interior work.
You would think that a man with a wooden leg was having a fit on the shingles right over our heads.
The polite thing for him to do would be to step down on the shingles and walk around them, but does he do it?
He gives the nearest youngster a vicious peck that makes him jump in the air and land sprawling a few feet down on the shingles.
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