Hydrophobia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An abnormal fear of water.
  • n. Rabies.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; rabies itself.
  • n. Fear of water (colloquial, fear of water is technically called aquaphobia, so not to be confused with rabies).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence
  • n. A viral disease trransmitted by a bite from, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and constriction 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In pathology: A symptom of rabies in man, consisting in a furious a version to liquids and an inability to swallow them. See rabies.
  • n. Hence— Rabies, especially in human beings.
  • n. Any morbid or unnatural dread of water, such as may exist independently of rabies.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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 symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids
  • n. a morbid fear of water
    • Hypernym
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