Hydrophobia Definition

hīdrə-fōbē-ə
noun
An abnormal fear of water.
Webster's New World

Rabies.

Webster's New World
Rabies.
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Other Word Forms of Hydrophobia

Noun

Singular:
hydrophobia
Plural:
hydrophobias

Origin of Hydrophobia

  • Sense 2, from the fact that persons suffering from rabies refuse water because of painful throat spasms

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin hydrophobia, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφοβία (hydrophobia).

    From Wiktionary

Hydrophobia Sentence Examples

  • He began the practice of inoculation for hydrophobia in 1885.

  • In order to prevent hydrophobia dogs may only be kept under certain restrictions.

  • Pasteur's inoculation against hydrophobia is on the same principle.

  • He is the patron of hunters, and is also invoked in cases of hydrophobia.

  • It is no less than a cure for the dread disease of hydrophobia in man and of rabies in animals; and the interest of the achievement is not only that he successfully combated one of the most mysterious and most fell diseases to which man is subject, but also that this was accomplished in spite of the fact that the special microbe causing the disease had not been isolated.

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