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What does herpetic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to herpes, or to any herpesvirus or herpesvirus-caused disease.
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We compared surgical outcome between patients who underwent keratoplasty for herpetic leukoma and those who received it for non-herpetic disorders.
Nursery personnel with an active herpetic whitlow should not have direct care of neonates.
On the left chest an herpetic eruption of the size of a dollar, and on the mamma a hard tumor of the size of a fist.
The vaccine also reduced post herpetic neuralgia, or pain persisting after an episode of shingles, by 67 percent.
Other childhood infections such as herpetic stomatitis, exanthema subitum, and chickenpox also seemed protective.
Several crops of herpetic vesicles also developed over the distribution of the radial nerve in the hand.

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