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  2. Nosocomephobia - Wikipedia

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    Nosocomephobia. Nosocomephobia is defined as the excessive fear of hospitals. [1] [2] [3] Dr. Marc Siegel, a physician and clinical professor at New York University Medical Center says, "It's perfectly understandable why many people feel the way they do about a hospital stay," and continues, "You have control of your life ... up until you're ...

  3. Nosophobia - Wikipedia

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    Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia [1] or illness anxiety disorder, [2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), [3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), [4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), [5] cancer (carcinophobia ...

  4. Fear of medical procedures - Wikipedia

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    Fear of surgery. Fear of surgery or other invasive medical procedure is known as tomophobia. Fear of surgery is not a fear experienced often, but is still just as harmful as other phobias that are more common. Since surgery is not a common occurrence, the fear is based on inexperience or something that is out of the ordinary. [ 6]

  5. Fear of needles - Wikipedia

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    About 22% of adult population, 3.5–10% of general population may temporarily lose consciousness around the time of a needle procedure. Fear of needles, known in medical literature as needle phobia, is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles . It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, although ...

  6. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  7. Xenophobia - Wikipedia

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    Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek: ξένος , "strange, foreign, or alien", and φόβος (phóbos), "fear") [1] is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

  8. Tetraphobia - Wikipedia

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    Tetraphobia. An elevator control panel in a residential apartment building in Shanghai with no floor numbered as the 4th. The number 4 missing in a parking lot in Japan. Tetraphobia (from Ancient Greek τετράς (tetrás) 'four' and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4.

  9. Thalassophobia - Wikipedia

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    Thalassophobia (from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa) 'sea' and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') [ 1] is the persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water, such as the ocean, seas, or lakes. Though related, thalassophobia should not be confused with aquaphobia, which is classified as the fear of water itself. Thalassophobia can ...