HZ
HZ is the initialism of habitable zone.
HZ is the initialism of herpes zoster.
Meaning of habitable zone
Noun
habitable zone (plural habitable zones)
- The zone around a star where a planet could experience temperatures like those on Earth, allowing for the possible existence of liquid water and of life.
- Synonyms:
- Goldilocks zone, circumstellar habitable zone
Meaning of herpes zoster
Noun
herpes zoster (uncountable)
- An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains, caused by reactivation of the Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus, that also causes chicken pox as primoinfection.
- From the description, Letha felt sure Jane had herpes zoster, or shingles, which often strikes cancer patients or others with depressed immune systems. Jane spent another week in the Bubble, treated with acyclovir.2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 98
- Synonyms:
- shingles
Forms of HZ
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Questions about HZ
- What is HZ the initialism of?
- HZ is the initialism of habitable zone.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: HZ (page history and authors); habitable zone (page history and authors); herpes zoster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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