zonahttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zona_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezona, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

zonanoun

  1. 1.
    1800–
    Archaeology. A girdle: = zone n. 3.
    1. 1800
      Both the tænia and zona are concealed by drapery falling over them.
      J. Dallaway, Anecdotes of Arts in England 249
  2. 2.
    1706–
    Used in Anatomy with various qualifying adjectives to denote certain structures or parts of structures (see quots., and cf. zone n. 6).
    1. 1706
      Zona... a kind of Herpes, or Shingles call'd Holy Fire.
      Phillips's New World of Words (new edition)
    2. 1818–20
      Herpes Zoster, Zona; or Zona ignea: the shingles.
      E. Thompson, Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 331
    3. 1899
      Yet there has never been any confusion with regard to H[erpes] Zoster, or Zona, since the disease was first described.
      T. C. Allbutt et al., System of Medicine vol. VIII. 616

zona, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

zona, n. was last modified in December 2024.