Dictionary Definition
hydrophobia
Noun
1 a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an
aversion to swallowing liquids
2 a morbid fear of water
3 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 [syn:
rabies, lyssa, madness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From hydrophobia, from .Pronunciation
- (US) /ˌhaɪdɻəˈfoʊbɪə/, /%haIdr@"foUbi@/
- (UK) /ˌhaidɹəˈfəʊbɪə/
- Rhymes: -əʊbiə
Translations
(pathology) rabies
- Danish: rabies, hundegalskab
- Finnish: vesikauhu, hydrofobia
- German: Tollwut
- Hungarian: veszettség, hidrofóbia, víziszony
- Portuguese: ravia
fear of water
- Danish: hydrofobi
- Finnish: veden pelko
- German: Wasserscheu
- Hungarian: víziszony
- Portuguese: hidrofobia
Etymology
From Greek ὑδροφοβία.Noun
hydrophobia 1st declension- hydrophobia
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Hydrophobia may refer to:
- rabies, especially a set of symptoms of the later stages of an infection, in which the victim has difficulty swallowing, shows panic when presented with liquids to drink, and cannot quench his or her thirst.
- Aquaphobia, a morbid fear of water, or of swimming. It usually occurs in mild cases involving fear of deep water, and not as a general fear of the substance water.
- Hydrophobe, a term used in chemistry to describe chemical "aversions" of a molecule or part of a molecule.
- Hydrophobia (video game), video game.
- Help! Help! Hydrophobia!, a 1913 movie starring Fatty Arbuckle
- Hydrophobia, a Hungarian disk magazine (1996–1997), see list of disk magazines.
hydrophobia in German: Hydrophobie
hydrophobia in French: Hydrophobie
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever,
German measles, Haverhill fever, Texas fever, acute articular
rheumatism, ague, alkali
disease, amathophobia, amebiasis, amebic dysentery,
anthrax, aphthous fever,
bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, bighead, black death, black
fever, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blackwater fever,
blennophobia, blind
staggers, bloody flux, breakbone fever, broken wind, brucellosis, bubonic plague,
cachectic fever, canine madness, cattle plague, cerebral
rheumatism, chaetophobia, charbon, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly
fever, dengue, dengue
fever, diphtheria,
distemper, dumdum
fever, dysentery,
elephantiasis,
encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever,
five-day fever, flu,
foot-and-mouth disease, frambesia, furious rabies,
gapes, glanders, glandular fever,
grippe, hansenosis, heaves, hemaphobia, hematophobia, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes
zoster, histoplasmosis, hog
cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hookworm, infantile paralysis,
infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle
rot, kala azar, kissing disease, koniophobia, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, liver rot,
loa loa, loaiasis,
lockjaw, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, madness, malaria, malarial fever,
malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule,
mange, marsh fever,
measles, megrims, meningitis, milzbrand, monophobia, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, panphobia, paratuberculosis,
paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever,
pertussis, pip, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis,
polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pseudotuberculosis,
psittacosis, quarter
evil, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing
fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, rinderpest, ringworm, rot, rubella, rubeola, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever,
schistosomiasis,
septic sore throat, sheep rot, shingles, sleeping sickness,
sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic
fever, spotted fever, staggers, strep throat,
stringhalt, sullen
rabies, swamp fever, swine dysentery, tetanus, thrush, tinea, toxiphobia, toxophobia, trench fever,
trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant
fever, vaccinia,
varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral
dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack,
zona, zoster