English-Latvian translations for herpes zoster

Definition of herpes zoster

• 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 , in genus ''Varicellovirus'', that also causes chicken pox as primo-infection

Related words

• herpes
• antiherpesvirus
• herpesviral
• alphaherpesvirus
• herpes simplex
• genital herpes