An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains, caused by reactivation of the Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus, that also causes chicken pox as primo-infection.
The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.
An ancient Greek waist-belt for men.