Word: cingulum
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...relief. I asked her to describe the pain. "Stabbing," she said. The clincher was a band of reddened skin - extending from the middle of her back around to her chest - and its double row of tiny blisters. The diagnosis: herpes zoster, known colloquially as shingles, from the Latin cingulum, for belt or girdle...
...name shingles derives from cingulum (Latin for belt or girdle) and refers to the fact that the accompanying blisters often cluster in a broad band, typically on just one side of the body. In my case, the skin lesions traced out the end branches of the fifth cranial, or trigeminal, nerve and affected only the left half of my face. In other cases, the lesions might appear on the chest, stomach or back...
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