Forensic Medicine

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Phobias

Acrophobia- Fear of heights. Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
Agliophobia/Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.

Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.

Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.

Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.

Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies.Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.

Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.

Kosmikophobia: Fear of cosmic phenomenon

Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.

Sciophobia: Fear of shadows

Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying.

Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow

Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
Zoophobia- Fear of animals.

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