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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
herpes
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.
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▪ A quick comparison showed enough similarities to other herpes viruses to determine that it was part of that viral family.
▪ And as you might expect, Milton had far fewer herpes outbreaks.
▪ Illnesses, including chronic muscle debility, herpes, tremors and eye infections, have come and gone.
▪ In the case of the rare hooded crane, the introduction of a foreign herpes virus has threatened the remaining wild population.
▪ She followed this advice and had no further attacks of herpes in the next six months.
▪ The ministry said that he had died of herpes of the brain.
▪ Three days later, she was diagnosed with herpes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herpes

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 clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
herpes

late 14c., "inflammatory, spreading skin condition" (used of shingles, gangrene, etc.), from Latin herpes "a spreading skin eruption," from Greek herpes, the name for the disease shingles, literally "creeping," from herpein "to creep" (cognate with Latin serpere "to creep;" see serpent). The condition was not distinguished into specific diseases until early 19c.

Wiktionary
herpes

n. (context medicine English) A viral infection, caused by (taxlink Human herpesvirus 1 species noshow=1) and (taxlink Human herpesvirus 2 species noshow=1), marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals.

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WordNet
herpes

  1. n. viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane

  2. any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin [syn: herpes virus]

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Wikipedia
Herpes (journal)

Herpes: The Journal of the IHMF was a triannual peer-reviewed medical journal published by Cambridge Medical Publications and the official journal of the International Herpes Management Forum. It was indexed from 1997 in Scopus and from 2001 in Index Medicus/ MEDLINE/ PubMed, until 2009, when the last issue was published. Articles were usually sollicited and publication was supported by an educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline and 3M Pharmaceuticals.

Herpes (disambiguation)

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
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Usage examples of "herpes".

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.