A common dermal and neurologic disorder caused by reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus that has remained dormant within dorsal root ganglia, often for decades, after the patient's initial exposure to the virus in the form of varicella (chickenpox). It is characterized by severe neuralgic pain along the distribution of the affected nerve and crops of clustered vesicles over the area. [ NCIT : C71079 ]
HZ
Zoster
herpes zoster
herpes zona
shingles
herpes Zoster
zoster
Term information
- MONDO:0005609
- SCTID:4740000 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- NCIT:C71079 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C0019360 (NCIT:C71079)
- ICD10CM:B02 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- MeSH:D006562
- ICD10:B02
- MedDRA:10019974
- MESH:D006562 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- ICD9:053 (EFO:0006510)
- SNOMEDCT:4740000
- NCIt:C71079
- DOID:8536 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_8536
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C71079
- http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/ICD10CM/B02
- http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0019360
- http://identifiers.org/snomedct/4740000
- http://identifiers.org/mesh/D006562
- true
- postherpetic neuralgia
- EFO:0006510
Term relations
- vesiculobullous skin disease
- skin disorder caused by infection
- disease arising from reactivation of latent virus
- post-viral disorder
- Varicella Zoster infection
- disease has feature some neuralgia
- disease causes feature some post-infectious neuralgia
- disease arises from feature some Varicella Zoster infection