Hȳ'dro-phō'bi-ȧ, n.

n. [Fr. hydrophobie, Lat. hydrophobia, Gr. ὑδροφοβία, from ὕδωρ, water, and φόβος, fear.] (Med.) A preternatural dread of water; a symptom of canine madness; hence, the disease caused by inoculation with the saliva of a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and constriction in the throat, excessive thirst, difficult deglutition, aversion for and horror at the sight of liquids, great nervous irritability, frothy saliva, grinding of the teeth, and the like. [Written also hydrophoby.] Dunglison.