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lyssa
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lyssa has 1 sense
- lyssa(n = noun.state) hydrophobia, madness, rabies - 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; Array is a kind of zoonosis, zoonotic disease
CIDE DICTIONARY
lyssa, n. [NL. See Lytta.].
Hydrophobia. [1913 Webster]
" The plural (Lyssæ) has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia."
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