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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 ...
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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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Another name for injury phobia is traumatophobia, from Greek τραῦμα (trauma), "wound, hurt" [2] and φόβος (phobos), "fear". [3] It is associated with BII (Blood-Injury-Injection) Phobia. Sufferers exhibit irrational or excessive anxiety and a desire to avoid specific feared objects and situations, to the point of avoiding ...
We are a nation of worriers -- and with good reason. According to the World Health Organization's International Classification of Disease, version 10, there are 12,420 different types of diseases ...
This is a list of notable disease outbreaks in the United States: This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2023) 1700s.