Hydrophobia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HYDROPHOBIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the morbid fear of water, as in rabies victims
• rabies, especially in humans.
• extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans.
• An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
• 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.
• a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids
• a morbid fear of water
• 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

Words related to HYDROPHOBIA

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Words that contain HYDROPHOBIA

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How to use HYDROPHOBIA in a sentence

• ROGERS, and others who have examined these waters and testified that they would cure everything but hydrophobia.
• Every shop is obliged to keep a vessel with water at the threshold of the outer door, to assist in avoiding hydrophobia.
• Henry Woodward, who told me that you gave him a dose to settle a dog that was laboring under the first symptoms of hydrophobia.
• Symptoms of hydrophobia very soon set in, and in a short time the victim was a confirmed case of the disease.
• He had seen the swirl of foam that was like the froth of a vast hydrophobia.
• My own private opinion is that he was suffering from hydrophobia.
• She has shown marked and well-characterized symptoms of hydrophobia.
• Apollonia were infallible remedies in cases of hydrophobia.
• The gorgeous individual shuddered as he took it, like one showing the first symptoms of hydrophobia.
• Considering what she suffered from her own proper and peculiar worries, it seemed melancholy to have to add to her burdens the hourly expectation of an outbreak of hydrophobia.
• His trouble was not hydrophobia, but simple, plain madness.
• It was also prescribed for hydrophobia, and linen cloths saturated with a decoction were kept applied to the bitten part.
• About the Russian Empire the Water Plantain is still regarded as efficacious against hydrophobia.
• Its root is highly esteemed in Russia for the cure of hydrophobia, being regarded by the doctors as a specific for that disease.
• The seeds were formerly thought to cure hydrophobia.
• Maybe the others would be sorry when he died of hydrophobia.
• He has seen more than one hydrophobia patient meet death in the most dreadful manner known to the profession.
• Hydrophobia is one of the most subtle diseases ever known.
• However, there appeared to be a residue of actual hydrophobia, though the disease as tested by its name exists in fancy rather than fact.
• In any event, Pasteur began to investigate hydrophobia, and at length discovered the bacilli which produce it.
• Soon afterward some bitten children were taken from the United States to Paris, and were treated against the expected appearance of hydrophobia.
• To fix by law the terms of places dependent upon such offices would be like an attempt to cure hydrophobia by the bite of a mad dog.

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