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UK
/hˌaɪdɹəfˈəʊbiə/
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NOUN
- a morbid fear of water
- a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids
- 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
How To Use hydrophobia In A Sentence
- The hydrophobia has come about as the result of the domestication of cats. Times, Sunday Times
- Salivation and thirst are great but the victim cannot swallow water because of throat muscle spasm hence the misnomer hydrophobia.
- One name for rabies, hydrophobia ("fear of water"), comes from painful throat contraction on trying to swallow.
- A variety of other clinical findings ensue, which may include anxiety, restlessness, hyperexcitability, hallucinations, dysphagia, and hydrophobia.
- (By the way, I am told that hydrophobia is unknown in Cochin China.) The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
- There's a stage of rabies where people develop hydrophobia, a bizarre and irrational fear of water.
- Ain't that some incurable disease like hydrophobia?
- One became hydrophobous and died; the other had evident symptoms of hydrophobia a few days afterwards. The Dog
- Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
- Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
