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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 ...
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These fears are seldom diagnosed or treated, as they are often extinguished into adulthood and do not often develop into phobias preventing individuals from seeking medical attention. Formally, medical fear is defined as "any experience that involves medical personnel or procedures involved in the process of evaluating or modifying health ...
People who seek treatment for fear of flying usually have a debilitating phobia. (rudi_suardi/E+/Getty Images)
This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 15:23, 28 February 2025 (UTC).
Supporters had urged one another to wear green in his honor, like the "Luigi" character in Nintendo’s "Super Mario" video games. A handful of people in the courthouse donned the color or other ...
Death anxiety has been found to affect people of differing demographic groups as well, such as men versus women, young versus old, etc. [4] The sociological and psychological consensus is that death anxiety is universally present across all societies, but that different cultures manifest aspects of death anxiety in differing ways and degrees. [5]
An inquest into the death of a 12-year-old girl who said she was raped by an older boy has found none of the authorities who had contact with her could have prevented her death.