About The Word Hydrophobia
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Hydrophobia
| Hydrophobia Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Hydrophobia?
[n] an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
[n] a morbid fear of water
[n] a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hydrophobia: lyssa |
madness |
rabies
Related Terms | Find terms related to Hydrophobia: acute articular rheumatism |
African lethargy |
ague |
alkali disease |
amathophobia |
amebiasis |
amebic dysentery |
anthrax |
aphthous fever |
Asiatic cholera |
bacillary dysentery |
bastard measles |
bighead |
black death |
black fever |
black quarter |
blackleg |
blackwater |
blackwater fever |
blennophobia |
blind staggers |
bloody flux |
breakbone fever |
broken wind |
brucellosis |
bubonic plague |
cachectic fever |
canine madness |
cattle plague |
cerebral rheumatism |
chaetophobia |
Chagres fever |
charbon |
chicken pox |
cholera |
cowpox |
dandy fever |
deer fly fever |
dengue |
dengue fever |
diphtheria |
distemper |
dumdum fever |
dysentery |
elephantiasis |
encephalitis lethargica |
enteric fever |
erysipelas |
famine fever |
five-day fever |
flu |
foot-and-mouth disease |
frambesia |
furious rabies |
gapes |
German measles |
glanders |
glandular fever |
grippe |
hansenosis |
Haverhill fever |
heaves |
hemaphobia |
hematophobia |
hepatitis |
herpes |
herpes simplex |
herpes zoster |
histoplasmosis |
hog cholera |
hoof-and-mouth disease |
hookworm |
infantile paralysis |
infectious mononucleosis |
inflammatory rheumatism |
influenza |
jail fever |
jungle rot |
kala azar |
kissing disease |
koniophobia |
lepra |
leprosy |
leptospirosis |
liver rot |
loa loa |
loaiasis |
lockjaw |
loco |
loco disease |
locoism |
mad staggers |
madness |
malaria |
malarial fever |
malignant catarrh |
malignant catarrhal fever |
malignant pustule |
mange |
marsh fever |
measles |
megrims |
meningitis |
milzbrand |
monophobia |
mumps |
ornithosis |
osteomyelitis |
panphobia |
paratuberculosis |
paratyphoid fever |
parotitis |
parrot fever |
pertussis |
pip |
pneumonia |
polio |
poliomyelitis |
polyarthritis rheumatism |
ponos |
pseudotuberculosis |
psittacosis |
quarter evil |
rabbit fever |
rabies |
rat-bite fever |
relapsing fever |
rheumatic fever |
rickettsialpox |
rinderpest |
ringworm |
rot |
rubella |
rubeola |
scabies |
scarlatina |
scarlet fever |
schistosomiasis |
septic sore throat |
sheep rot |
shingles |
sleeping sickness |
sleepy sickness |
smallpox |
snail fever |
splenic fever |
spotted fever |
staggers |
strep throat |
stringhalt |
sullen rabies |
swamp fever |
swine dysentery |
tetanus |
Texas fever |
thrush |
tinea |
toxiphobia |
toxophobia |
trench fever |
trench mouth |
tuberculosis |
tularemia |
typhoid |
typhoid fever |
typhus |
typhus fever |
undulant fever |
vaccinia |
varicella |
variola |
venereal disease |
viral dysentery |
whooping cough |
yaws |
yellow fever |
yellow jack |
zona |
zoster
See Also | simple phobia |
symptom |
zoonosis
Hydrophobia In Webster's Dictionary
\Hy`dro*pho"bi*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; "y`dwr water +
? fear: cf. F. hydrophobie.] (Med.)
(a) An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of
canine madness; hence:
(b) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with
the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief
symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the
throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked
heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions
whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed
in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies;
canine madness. [Written also {hydrophoby}.]
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