Usually means: Viral infection causing blisters, contagious.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. herpes: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. herpes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. herpes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. herpes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. herpes: Vocabulary.com
  6. Herpes, herpes: Wordnik
  7. herpes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. herpes: Wiktionary
  9. herpes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. herpes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. herpes: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. herpes: Dictionary.com
  13. herpes: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. herpes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Herpes (disambiguation), Herpes (journal), Herpes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Herpes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. herpes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. herpes: Rhymezone
  19. Herpes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. herpes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. herpes: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. herpes: Free Dictionary
  23. herpes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. herpes: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Herpes: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herpes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Herpes: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Herpes: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  6. Herpes: Medical dictionary
  7. Herpes: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HERPES: Acronym Finder

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herpes: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See herpetic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (medicine) A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals.

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