Crossword clues for zoster
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zoster \Zos"ter\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? girdle, zoster. See Zone.] (Med.) Shingles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of seaweed, c.1600, Latin, from Greek zoster "girdle," originally "warrior's belt," from zonnynai (see zone (n.)). Meaning "shingles" is from 1706; in the literal sense, "a belt or girdle, especially for men," from 1824.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men. 2 (context uncountable disease English) The disease called ''herpes zoster'' (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.
WordNet
n. eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia [syn: herpes zoster, shingles]
Wikipedia
A zoster was a form of girdle or belt worn by men and perhaps later by women in Ancient Greece, from the Archaic period (c. 750–c. 500 BC) to the Hellenistic period (323–30 BC).
The word occurs in Homer, where it appears to refer to a warrior's belt of leather, possibly covered in bronze plates. Later references in the late Archaic and early Classical periods show it used as a belt or cloth girdle with men's clothes, especially the shorter chiton.
By the Hellenistic period, it had become synonymous with "zone" and was used for women's clothes as well as men's.
The zoster was also worn and is still worn by Greeks when wearing traditional costumes (regional clothing).
Usage examples of "zoster".
I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.
Then sleep overpowered me, and I stretched myself on my couch of zostera, and slept profoundly, whilst the Nautilus was gliding rapidly through the current of the Black River.
Though Zoster was the only one armed, the trio of scabs boldly led their little expedition through a tangle of feral trails, much-aided by their satellite surveillance maps and GPS locators.
I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.
Chicken pox and its recurrent form, shingles, or herpes zoster, are also related to herpes.
Because of the shock to his system, he followed that with herpes Zoster.