Crossword-Solution: HYDROPHOBIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hydrophobia | n. | An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence: |
| Hydrophobia | n. | 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. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “HYDROPHOBIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| RABIES in man, symptom of | 1 answer |
| RABIES transferred to man, affect of | 1 answer |
| SYMPTOM of rabies in man | 1 answer |
| aversion to water | 1 answer |
| lyssa | 1 answer |
| fear of water | 2 answers |
| canine madness | 3 answers |
| CENTRAL nervous system infection | 3 answers |
| Rabies | 4 answers |
| Madness? | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with HYDROPHOBIA (5)
But, you see, if you were I, you would have lived with my father, and he'd have told you what he knows--what he's been finding out all his life." "What's he found out?" "Oh!" Marco answered, quite casually, "just that you can't set savage thoughts loose in the world, any more than you can let loose savage beasts with hydrophobia.
Diemerbroeck, Bonet, Baglivi, Kercher, and Desault mention the efficacy of melody in phthisis, gout, hydrophobia, the bites of venomous reptiles, etc.
The cowboy who works on the southwestern range has good cause to fear the malodorous hydrophobia skunk.
Unanue states that hydrophobia was first known in South America in 1803: this statement is corroborated by Azara and Ulloa having never heard of it in their time.
Pasteur himself made the application to the human subject in the disease hydrophobia in 1885, since which time that hitherto most fatal of maladies has largely lost its terrors.
Quotes with HYDROPHOBIA (3)
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; t…
Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.
A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.