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A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
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What is the Latin name for shingles?
Roof shingles: scindolas, cindulis, or scandalis robusteisMedical condition, shingles: cingulum (meaning belt or girdle, descriptive of the location of many outbreaks)Scientific term for shingles-causing virus: varicella-zoster virus (vericella is from the Latin word "variola," meaning small pox). Shingles is not small pox, but a reactivated form of chicken pox.
Why is the virus called shingles?
Shingles is not the name of the virus but the name of the rash. Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an infection of a nerve and the skin around it. It is caused by the varicella (chickenpox)-zoster (shingles) virus. Its' name is from the French and Latin meaning girdle or belt. The rash "follows" the nerves. These nerves come off of the spinal cord in a belt-like fashion.
Can you get shingles from shingles if you have had shingles before?
No. Shingles is not contagious, but someone with shingles can give chicken pox or varicella to someone who has not had chicken pox before.
Which dinosaur was given a Greek name meaning roofed lizard because of the plateshaped shingles on its back?
That would be the STEGOSAURS
What is shingles in Spanish?
Shingles
Can one pimple be shingles?
No. You only get shingles's if you have had chickenpox. No chickenpox no shingles's.
Will the shingles vaccine protect you from ever getting shingles?
Shingles vaccine protects you from the shingles for few years only.
Can you get the shingles vaccine after having shingles?
You could get the vaccine if you already had shingles; but it may not help you from recurrence of zoster, which by the way is less than 5%. If it does recur, the vaccine may help you.
Is shingles vaccine effective after shingles outbreak?
Can you take the shingles shot while having shingles
Can you get shingles from lying in a bed after someone else who had shingles say in a hospital?
Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus. You do not get shingles from someone with shingles; you get chickenpox from someone with shingles. Then when you get older, you will get shingles because you had chickenpox. Or, you might get older and never get chickenpox. In that case, you will thank your mother for having you vaccinated against chickenpox when you were a child.
Can you get pregnant after shingles?
You can get pregnant after having shingles.
Did the hottub cause shingles?
No, it did not cause shingles.
