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Definition of Hydrophobia

1. Noun. A symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids.

2. Noun. A morbid fear of water.

3. Noun. 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.

Definition of Hydrophobia

1. n. An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:

Definition of Hydrophobia

1. Noun. (pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; rabies itself. ¹

2. Noun. Fear of water (colloquial, fear of water is technically called aquaphobia, so not to be confused with rabies). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydrophobia

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Medical Definition of Hydrophobia

1. Fear of water. Origin: Gr. Phobos = fear (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrophobia

hydrophilic hydrophilic colloid hydrophilic group hydrophilic ointment hydrophilic petrolatum hydrophilic signaling molecule hydrophilicity hydrophilid hydrophilite hydrophilites

hydrophilous hydrophily hydrophlorone hydrophobe hydrophobes hydrophobia (current term) hydrophobias hydrophobic hydrophobic bond hydrophobic bonding

hydrophobic colloid hydrophobic effect hydrophobic interaction hydrophobic tetanus hydrophobically hydrophobicities hydrophobicity hydrophobin hydrophobins hydrophobised

Literary usage of Hydrophobia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"The number of cases of hydrophobia which occurred in France during the year 1852 was 48. These were observed in 14 departments : the department in which the ..."

2. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System by William Alexander Hammond (1876)
"But Bouley,1 who has investigated the whole subject of hydrophobia with great ability, ... He also says that all living beings affected with hydrophobia are ..."

3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Although hydrophobia in the human subject is so infrequent that many practitioners of considerable experience have never met with a case, it is still of ..."

4. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"ing the production of hydrophobia, are by no means well founded. It hus been sup- posed that hydrophobia can only take order to see whether the disease ..."

5. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1855)
"hydrophobia, concluded. Various Questions considered respecting the Disease a» it appears in the Human Subject, and respecting Rabies in the Dog. ..."

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