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Viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane
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herpes
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Herpes may refer to: Herpes simplex , a disease Herpes (journal) , a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Cambridge Medical Publication Herpes (weevil) , a beetle genus in the tribe Thecesternini
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herpes \Her"pes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. "e`rphs, fr. "e`rpein to creep.] (Med.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected, caused by a herpesvirus infection; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin [syn: herpes virus ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN virus ▪ In the case of the rare hooded crane, the introduction of a foreign herpes virus has threatened the remaining wild population. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A quick comparison showed enough similarities to other herpes ...
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By the way, while over a million Americans are HIV positive or have AIDS, 12 million more get other sexual diseases every year, including herpes, genital warts, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and others.
Herpes simplex virus types responsible for cold sores and genital Herpes.
They were using a common virus, herpes simplex Ia+, the virus that produces cold sores.
Long before the Crossings, such plagues as varicella, diphtheria, influenza, rubella, epidemic roseola, morbilli, scarlatina, variola, typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, cytomegalovirus herpes, and gonococcal were eliminated by vaccination .
Not a single Herod’s fetus has gone to full term, hi fact, yesterday, we were told by scientists working with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that not only are these second-stage fetuses subject to first trimester rejection at a catastrophic rate, but that they are especially vulnerable to virtually every known herpes virus, including Epstein-Barr.
Unless you were suffering like crazy or long past your prime, death fell on you with all the welcomeness of a bout of genital herpes.
Tests positive for Herpes labialis and for hepatitis A and HIV as well as SHEVA.
They were wrong on the sexual revolution (witness the explosions of AIDS, herpes, chlamydia, hepatitis B, and abortion).
Or suppose the College in its infinite computeroid wisdom decides to ram into me all the information in the universe pertaining to or resembling herpes labialis.
You test positive for herpes simplex type one, but negative for mono—.
I realize that discussing kiddie sniffles and herpes simplex in the same breath is a bit -- incongruous, shall we say, but we are dealing with the demon Virus here, which makes for strange bedfellows, to say nothing of making bedfellows strange.
And the bastard compounded his madness by hiding out in the low-rent bowels of Mazatlan like some half-mad leper gone over the brink after yet another debilitating attack of string warts and Herpes Simplex lesions.
Anyhow the herpes simplex keratitis which had afflicted him during the previous week had abated.
The herpes virus does not survive well in temperatures much above body heat.
Direct contact with THC killed herpes virus in a University of South Florida (Tampa) 1990 research study by Dr.