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Shingle can refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • A flat covering element for a roof, including
  • Shingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of small pebbles
  • Shingling (metallurgy) was a stage in the production, when iron or steel was consolidated with a hammer.
  • A small wooden platform, used for shingle dancing
  • Paddle (spanking), a wooden spanking implement resembling a roofing shingle
  • An alluvial material of flat slate stones with edges rounded by erosion, typically forming a beach at the seashore
  • Herpes zoster ("shingles"), a disease of the nerves
  • Shingle back (Trachydosaurus rugosus), a species of skink found in Australia.
  • Commercial signage, as in "to hang out one's shingle".
  • shingle bob, a short hairstyle for women in the mid 1920s
  • In text mining, a contiguous subsequence of tokens in a document used to gauge syntactic similarity. A set of shingles comprise a w-shingling.

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Herpes zoster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1515 words)
suggest that incidence of shingles is linked to the reduced frequency of periodic exogenous (outside) exposures to children with varicella (chickenpox) due to the increasing vaccination of that population.
Shingles incidence is high in the elderly (over 60), as well as in any age group of immunocompromised patients.
Shingles on the upper half of the face (the first branch of the trigeminal nerve) may result in eye damage and require urgent ophthalmological assessment.
Shingles - MSN Encarta (575 words)
Shingles or Herpes Zoster, disorder in which a rash of small blisters develops on the skin.
Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox.
While the exact cause of shingles is not understood, scientists theorize that during an attack of chicken pox, the virus may invade large clusters of neurons (nerve cells) found on either side of the spinal cord.
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