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Cold Sore

Definition: Cold Sore

Cold Sore

Noun

1. Caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Cold Sore

Synonyms: fever blister (n), herpes labialis (n), oral herpes (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Cold Sore

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Photo Album: Cold Sore

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Herpes simplex lesion of lower lip, second day after onset. HSV, cold sore. Credit: CDC.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Cold Sore

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Researchers in Japan identified the common cold sore virus, herpes simplex, as the likely cause of most cases of Bell's palsy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cold Sore

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cold sore	1,953	treating cold sore	12
cold sore remedy	165	lysine and cold sore	9
cold sore treatment	142	prevent cold sore	8
cold sore picture	117	cold sore outbreak	8
cold sore cure	82	cold sore contagious	6
cold sore home remedy	75	cold sore canker sore	5
cold sore medicine	44	what to do to heal a cold sore	5
cold sore medication	43	herpes simplex cold sore	4
cold sore herpes	35	cold sore throat	4
cause of cold sore	35	cold sore begone	4
get rid of cold sore	29	preventing cold sore	3
cold sore symptom	24	bag cold sore tea	3
cold sore fever blister	22	cold sore ointment	3
cold sore photo	17	cold sore zovirax	3
cold sore prevention	14	arginine cold sore	2
treat cold sore	13
		arginine cold sore	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Cold Sore

Language		Translations for "cold sore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		口辺単�"疱疹 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うへ�"た�"じゅ�"ほうし�". (various references)

Pig Latin		oldcay oresay

Portuguese		afta (aphtha, thrush, ulcer). (various references)

Spanish		herpes labial (herpes labialis). (various references)

Turkish		uçuk (faint, fever blister, herpes, pale, pastel). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Cold Sore

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: coloreds, decolors.
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-o-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: colored, coolers, creosol, decolor, scolder.
	-2 letters: ceorls, closed, closer, coders, colder, colors, cooers, cooled, cooler, credos, cresol, decors, dolors, dorsel, drools, locoed, locoes, loosed, looser, oodles, resold, rodeos, roosed, roscoe, scored, solder, soloed.
	-3 letters: ceorl, ceros, clods, close, coder, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coles, color, cooed, cooer, cools, cords, cored, cores, corse, credo.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-o-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: coholders, condolers, decolours.
	+2 letters: crocodiles, decontrols, decorously, discolored, doctorless, foreclosed, miscolored, overclouds, reschooled, undercools.
	+3 letters: bloodsucker, chloralosed, clodhoppers, copyholders, coromandels, decolorizes, scolopendra, sockdolager, sockdologer, stockholder, supercooled.
	+4 letters: bachelordoms, bloodsuckers, cardiologies, codevelopers, crocidolites, decolorizers, dichlorvoses, fluoroscoped, indecorously, rhabdocoeles, scolopendras, sockdolagers, sockdologers, stockholders.
	+5 letters: bachelorhoods, chlamydospore, counterworlds, mollycoddlers, nondisclosure, officeholders, overcredulous, plerocercoids, policyholders, reconsolidate.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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