What is the meaning of the word shingle?

Answer 1

Shingles is the clinical manifestation of activated herpes zoster viruses that normally live within nerves reaching the skin surface, forming painful papular lesions in a dermatomal distribution specific to their home nerve.

Answer 2

Shingles is an acute infection that is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. It is a painful condition that involves inflammation of the sensory nerves. The symptoms are numbness, itching and and pain followed by the appearance of a blistery rash in a strip pattern on one side of the body. The pain can last for weeks, months and even years after the rash heals.

Answer 3

Shingles is just a term shingles actual name is Varicella Zoster Virus. After an indivudal has chickenpox, this virus lives in there nervous system. Scary Huh?

Answer 4

Varicella is the name of disease; the virus that causes it is varicella zoster virus (VZV).

Answer 5

Herpes zoster is the medical term meaning shingles.

Answer 6

shingles (also called herpes zoster)