(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.

Resembling herpes zoster

Resembling herpes zoster

plural of zosteropid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Zosteropidae; a white-eye.

Any extinct plant of the class Zosterophyllopsida.