herpes simplex

English

Noun

herpes simplex (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A viral disease caused by Human herpesvirus 1 or Human herpesvirus 2 in genus Simplexvirus.
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 373:

     That's the whole point of Ashearh. It's both. As an example, look at herpes simplex.

Hypernyms

• herpes

Derived terms

• herpes simplex virus

Translations

viral disease

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: herpes simple m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單純皰疹 / 单纯疱疹 (zh) (dānchún pàozhěn)

• Czech: opar (cs) m
• Finnish: herpes simplex (fi), herpes (fi)
• French: herpès (fr) m
• German: Herpes simplex m
• Hungarian: herpesz (hu), herpes simplex
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 単純疱疹 (ja) (tanjun hōshin), 単純ヘルペス (tanjun herupesu)
• Korean: 단순 포진 (dansun pojin)
• Russian: просто́й ге́рпес m (prostój gérpes)
• Spanish: herpes simple m
• Turkish: uçuk (tr)