| 单词 | hydrophobia |
| 释义 | hydrophobia (once / 12049 pages) n Foaming at the mouth? Terrified of drinking water? You're displaying all the signs of hydrophobia, a common symptom of rabies. Unfortunately by this point you're probably beyond curing. Or reading online definitions. Take hydro (meaning "water") and phobia (meaning "fear") and you have hydrophobia — a fear of water. This could be a purely psychological issue that started in the lake at summer camp, or it could be physically motivated by disease — such as rabies. WORD FAMILYhydrophobia: hydrophobic+/hydrophobic: hydrophobicity USAGE EXAMPLESHydrophobia “You try telling Hillary Clinton she has to drink water.” Economist(Sep 15, 2016) Bud Searcy sure hoped that we wouldn’t have an outbreak of hydrophobia in Salt Licks and all die before the men got back from Kansas. Fred Gipson, Old Yeller(1956) He had symptoms of hydrophobia — the sight of water, the thought of swallowing, caused excruciating throat spasms. New York Times(Nov 04, 2014) 1n a morbid fear of water Hyper simple phobia any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli 2n 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|Hyper lyssa, madness, rabies zoonosis, zoonotic disease an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans 3n a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids Hyper symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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