Definition for HY-DRO-PHO'BI-A, or HY'DRO-PHO-BY

HY-DRO-PHO'BI-A, or HY'DRO-PHO-BY, n. [Gr. υδωρ, water, and φοβεομαι, to fear.]

A preternatural dread of water; a symptom of canine madness, or the disease itself, which is thus denominated. This dread of water sometimes takes place in violent inflammations of the stomach, and in hysteric fits. Encyc.

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