cacar ular
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of cacar (“variola, smallpox”) + ular (“snake”), named after dermatomal distribution of skin change in herpes zoster.
Noun
[edit]cacar ular (first-person possessive cacar ularku, second-person possessive cacar ularmu, third-person possessive cacar ularnya)
- (pathology) herpes zoster, shingles.
- Synonyms: cacar api, herpes zoster
Further reading
[edit]- “cacar ular” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.