shingles
/ˈʃɪŋglz/plural noun
treated as sing.
- Medicine an acute painful inflammation of the nerve ganglia, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the middle of the body. It is caused by the same virus as chickenpox.【医】带状疱疹。亦作HERPES ZOSTER.
词源
late Middle English: representing medieval Latin cingulus, variant of Latin cingulum 'girdle', from cingere 'gird'.