(countable) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men. / (uncountable, medicine) The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.

plural of zoster

(pathology) 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.

herpes zoster without the characteristic rash

Human alphaherpesvirus 3, the infectious agent that causes chickenpox (varicella) and shingles.

(botany) Belonging to the Zosterophyllaceae.

(botany) Belonging to the Zosteraceae.

plural of zosterophyllophyte

Any extinct plant of the class Zosterophyllopsida.

plural of zosterophyll