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cold sores

n. (cold sore English)

Usage examples of "cold sores".

We suffered neither cold sores, influenza, bronchitis, pinkeye, nor the other ills that children bring home from school and pass on to their parents.

Herpes simplex virus types responsible for cold sores and genital herpes.

I froze and burst out with cold sores which my schoolmates promptly diagnosed as cancer.

Looking back, I find my cold sores to have been the one cheerful facet of that winter.

I'd seen more joy and delight and enthusiasm from little campground kids who slept in cardboard shacks and washed-if they ever did-in canals and ate whatever edible came their way, but grinned, even when impetigo or cold sores bled across their grins.

I had cold sores on my lips and my skin had cracked open in places, and the vitamin deficiency hindered the healing process.

Hell, almost everyone has had chicken pox, or mono, or cold sores.

They were using a common virus, herpes simplex Ia+, the virus that produces cold sores.

He looked at the girl, seeing the bruise -on her cheek, the cold sores on her mouth.