shingles

Definition

  • noun: a disease that causes pain and red marks on your skin along the path of a nerve
  • noun plural but singular in construction: an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox
  • synonyms: herpes zoster

Movie quotes

  • (..) - No. I make everything myself. - Really? - Oh, yeah. All this. I turn all the banisters myself and make all the shingles and the furniture. And I used to do cabinet making, but there's not much call for that these days. Maybe I spend too much time on these things, (..)
    2009 The Lovely Bones