Associations to the word «Zoster»

Wiktionary

ZOSTER, noun. (countable) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men.
ZOSTER, noun. (uncountable) (disease) The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.
ZOSTER SINE HERPETE, noun. Herpes zoster without the characteristic rash

Dictionary definition

ZOSTER, noun. Eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats