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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`dropho"bia\, 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}.]

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

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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