shingles
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shingles/ˈʃɪŋɡlz/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] an acute painful inflammation of nerve endings, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the body, caused by the varicella zoster virus.
– origin ME: representing med. L. cingulus, var. of L. cingulum ‘girdle’.
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