Hydrophobia synonyms

hī'drə-fō'bē-ə

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rabies
An acute, infectious viral disease of mammals, that attacks the central nervous system: it can be transmitted to people through the bite of an infected animal and is characterized by choking, convulsions, inability to swallow, etc.
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madness
The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
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lyssa
A female given name
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panphobia
(By confusion with panophobia) a condition of groundless fears
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hemaphobia
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toxiphobia
Alternative form of toxicophobia.
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amathophobia
Fear of dust.
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blennophobia
(Very rare) The irrational fear of slime.
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Find another word for hydrophobia. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hydrophobia, like: rabies, madness, lyssa, panphobia, hemaphobia, toxiphobia, amathophobia and blennophobia.
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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.

  • 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.

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

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