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noun
A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or in the mucous membranes or on the genitals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: herpes virus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: animal virus
Narrower terms: herpes simplex, herpes simplex virus, herpes zoster, herpes zoster virus, Epstein-Barr virus, EBV, cytomegalovirus, CMV, varicella zoster virus
noun
viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infectious disease
Narrower terms: herpes simplex, herpes zoster, zoster, shingles
History
From Latin herpēs, from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs, “herpes”, literally “a creeping”), from ἕρπειν (hérpein, “to creep”).
Across languages
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
