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hydrophobia [ˌhaɪdrəˈfəʊbɪə] n 1. (Medicine / Pathology) another name for rabies 2. (Psychiatry) a fear of drinking fluids, esp that of a person with rabies, because of painful spasms when trying to swallow Compare aquaphobia
hydrophobia an abnormal fear of water. See also: Waterrabies in human beings. Also called lyssa. See also: Rabies
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In the course of a few days he showed symptoms of hydrophobia, and became raving toward night. The doctors took over forty stitches in him and shot him full of that Pasteur dope for hydrophobia. A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes; insanity that makes him eat grass; war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering. |
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