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Some of the most common phobias and their medical terminology. Overcoming Phobias.
Accidents- Dystychiphobia.
Air- Anemophobia.
Air swallowing- Aerophobia.
Airsickness - Aeronausiphobia.
Alcohol- Methyphobia or Potophobia.
Alone (being) - Isolophobia.
Amnesia- Amnesiphobia.
Anger- Cholerophobia.
Animals- Zoophobia.
Animals skins - Doraphobia.
Ants- Myrmecophobia.
Atomic Explosions- Atomosophobia.
Automobile (moving)- Ochophobia.
Automobiles- Motorphobia.
Bacteria - Bacteriophobia.
Bald people-
Peladophobia.
Bald (becoming)- Phalacrophobia.
Bathing- Ablutophobia.
Beards- Pogonophobia.
Beautiful women- Caligynephobia.
Beds - Clinophobia.
Bees- Apiphobia or Melissophobia.
Blindness - Scotomaphobia.
Blood- Hemophobia or Hemaphobia..
Body odors- Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia.
Bogeyman
- Bogyphobia.
Books- Bibliophobia.
Bound or tied up- Merinthophobia.
Bowel movements- Defecaloesiophobia.
Brain disease- Meningitophobia.
Bridges (crossing)- Gephyrophobia.
Bullets - Ballistophobia.
Bums & beggars- Hobophobia.
Burglars - Scelerophobia.
Buried alive - Taphephobia.
Cancer- Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia.
Car (riding) - Amaxophobia.
Cats - Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Gatophobia, or Felinophobia
Cemeteries- Coimetrophobia.
Chickens- Alektorophobia.
Childbirth- Maleusiophobia or Lockiophobia.
Children- Pedophobia.
Chinese - Sinophobia.
Choking - Pnigophobia
Church- Ecclesiophobia.
Clocks or time- Chronophobia.
Clothing- Vestiphobia.
Clowns- Coulrophobia.
Coitus- Coitophobia.
Cold things- Frigophobia.
Colors- Chromophobia
Comets- Cometophobia.
Computers - Cyberphobia.
Confined spaces- Claustrophobia.
Constipation- Coprastasophobia.
Contamination - Molysmophobia
Cooking- Mageirocophobia.
Corpses- Necrophobia.
Criticism- Enissophobia.
Crucifix- Staurophobia.
Crossing streets- Agyrophobia or Dromophobia.
Crowds - Agoraphobia.
Dampness - Hygrophobia.
Dancing- Chorophobia.
Dark place- Lygophobia.
Darkness- Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia.
Dawn- Eosophobia.
Daylight - Phengophobia.
Dying - Thanatophobia.
Dead things- Necrophobia.
Decaying matter- Seplophobia.
Decisions - Decidophobia.
Defeat- Kakorrhaphiophobia.
Deformed people - Teratophobia or Dysmorphophobia
Demons- Demonophobia or Daemonophobia.
Dental surgery- Odontophobia.
Dentists- Dentophobia.
Diabetes- Diabetophobia.
Dining - Delpnophobia.
Dirt - Molysmophobia.
Dirty (being) - Automysophobia.
Disease- Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia.
Dizziness - Illyngophobia..
Dogs - Cynophobia.
Dolls- Pediophobia.
Dreams- Oneirophobia.
Drinking - Dipsophobia.
Drugs - Pharmacophobia.
Dryness- Xerophobia.
Dust- Amathophobia
Eating - Phagophobia.
Electricity- Electrophobia.
Erect penis- Medorthophobia.
Erection (losing)- Medomalacuphobia.
Everything- Panophobia.
Eyes- Ommetaphobia
Fainting- Asthenophobia.
Fatigue- Kopophobia.
Feces- Scatophobia.
Female genitals- Kolpophobia or Eurotophobia.
Fever- Fibriphobia
Filth - Rhypophobia.
Fire- Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia.
Firearms- Hoplophobia.
Fish- Ichthyophobia.
Floods- Antlophobia.
Flowers - Anthrophobia.
Flying- Aerophobia, Aviophobia or Aviatophobia
Fog- Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia.
Food - Sitophobia
Foreigners - Xenophobia.
Forests- Hylophobia.
Forests (night)- Nyctohylophobia
Forgetfulness - Athazagoraphobia.
France - Francophobia or Galiphobia.
Friday the 13th- Paraskavedekatriaphobia.
Frogs- Batrachophobia.
Frost - Cryophobia.
Garlic- Alliumphobia.
Genitals - Kolpophobia or Eurotophobia.
Germans - Germanophobia
Germs - Misophobia
Ghosts - Spectrophobia.
Girls - Parthenophobia.
Glass - Crystallophobia.
God or gods- Zeusophobia..
Gold- Aurophobia.
Greek - Hellophobia.
Hair- Trichophobia
Halloween- Samhainophobia.
Handwriting- Graphophobia.
Heart - Cardiophobia.
Heat- Thermophobia.
Heaven- Ouranophobia or Uranophobia.
Heights- Acrophobia.
Hell- Hadephobia
Holy things- Hagiophobia.
Home
- Ecophobia.
Homosexuality - Homophobia.
Horses- Equinophobia or Hippophobia.
Hospitals- Nosocomephobia.
Houses - Domatophobia.
Hurricanes- Lilapsophobia.
Hypnotized - Hypnophobia.
Ice - Pagophobia.
Ignored (being)- Athazagoraphobia.
Imperfection- Atelophobia.
Infection- Molysomophobia.
Injections- Trypanophobia.
Injury- Traumatophobia.
Insanity- Dementophobia
Insects - Insectophobia.
Itching- Acarophobia.
Japanese - Japanophobia.
Jealousy- Zelophobia.
Jews- Judeophobia.
Jumping - Catapedaphobia.
Kidney disease- Albuminurophobia.
Kissing- Philemaphobia
Knowledge- Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia.
Lakes- Limnophobia.
Large things- Megalophobia.
Laughter- Geliophobia.
Lawsuits - Liticaphobia.
Learning- Sophophobia.
Leprosy- Leprophobia
Lice- Pediculophobia
Light- Photophobia.
Lightning - Brontophobia
Liquids- Hygrophobia.
Locked in - Cleithrophobia
Lockjaw - Tetanophobia.
Loneliness - Eremophobia
Loud noises- Ligyrophobia.
Love- Erotophobia.
Love (falling in)- Philophobia.
Machines- Mechanophobia.
Madness - Lyssophobia.
Marriage- Gamophobia.
Meat- Carnophobia.
Medicine (taking) - Pharmacophobia.
Medicines- Hydrargyophobia.
Memories- Mnemophobia..
Men- Hominophobia.
Menstruation- Menophobia.
Metal- Metallophobia.
Meteors- Meteorophobia.
Mice- Musophobia
Mind- Psychophobia.
Mirrors- Catoptrophobia.
Mobs - Demophobia
Moisture - Hygrophobia.
Money- Chrometophobia
Moon
- Selenophobia.
Mother-in-law- Pentheraphobia.
Moths- Mottephobia.
Motion - Kinetophobia
Moving automobile - Ochophobia.
Mushrooms - Mycophobia.
Music- Melophobia.
Names- Nomatophobia.
Narrowness- Anginophobia.
Needles- Aichmophobia or Belonephobia..
Newness- Cainophobia.
Night- Noctiphobia.
Noise - Acousticophobia.
Nosebleeds- Epistaxiophobia.
Novelty- Cainophobia or Cainotophobia.
Nuclear weapons- Nucleomituphobia.
Nudity- Gymnophobia or Nudophobia.
Number 13- Triskadekaphobia.
Numbers- Arithmophobia or Numerophobia.
Ocean - Thalassophobia.
Odors - Olfactophobia.
Old people- Gerontophobia.
Operation- Tomophobia.
Opinions- Allodoxaphobia.
Pain- Algiophobia or Odynephobia.
Paper-
Papyrophobia.
Parasites- Parasitophobia.
Parents-in-law- Soceraphobia.
Penis (erect)- Medorthophobia.
People- Anthropophobia.
Phobias- Phobophobia.
Pins- Enetophobia.
Plants- Botonophobia.
Pleasure- Hedonophobia.
Poetry- Metrophobia.
Poison- Iophobia.
Poisoned (being)- Toxiphobia
Politicians - Politicophobia.
Pope- Papaphobia.
Priests - Hierophobia.
Progress- Prosophobia.
Property- Orthophobia.
Prostitutes- Cypridophobia
Punishment - Mastigophobia...
Puppets- Pupaphobia.
Rabies- Cynophobia.
Radiation- Radiophobia.
Railroads- Siderodromophobia.
Rain- Ombrophobia
Rape- Virginitiphobia.
Rats- Zemmiphobia.
Rectum - Rectophobia.
Relatives- Syngenesophobia.
Religion- Theophobia.
Religious ceremonies- Teleophobia.
Reptiles- Herpetophobia.
Responsibility (neglecting)- Paralipophobia.
Responsibility- Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia.
Ridiculed- Catagelophobia
Road travel
- Hodophobia.
Rooms- Koinoniphobia.
Ruin- Atephobia.
Running water- Potamophobia.
Russians - Russophobia.
Sacred things- Hierophobia.
Satan- Satanophobia.
Scabies- Scabiophobia.
School- Scolionophobia.
Scientific terminology- Hellenologophobia.
Scratches - Amychophobia.
Sea - Thalassophobia.
Semen- Spermatophobia
Sermons- Homilophobia.
Sex- Genophobia.
Sex (opposite)- Heterophobia or Sexophobia.
Sexual abuse- Agraphobia or Contreltophobia.
Sexual intercourse- Coitophobia.
Sexual love - Erotophobia.
Sexual perversion- Paraphobia.
Shadows- Sciophobia
Sin- Hamartophobia.
Sinning - Peccatophobia.
Sitting- Cathisophobia
Skin disease- Dermatosiophobia.
Skin lesions- Dermatophobia.
Sleep- Somniphobia.
Slime- Blennophobia
Smells- Olfactophobia.
Smothered - Pnigerophobia.
Snakes- Ophidiophobia
Snow- Chionophobia.
Social activities- Social Phobia.
Society - Sociophobia.
Solitude- Monophobia.
Sounds- Acousticophobia.
Sourness- Acerophobia.
Speaking- Laliophobia
Speaking aloud- Phonophobia.
Speaking in public- Glossophobia.
Specters - Spectrophobia.
Speed- Tachophobia.
Spiders- Arachnophobia.
Spirits- Pneumatiphobia.
Stage fright- Topophobia.
Stairs - Climacophobia.
Standing up- Stasiphobia.
Stared at- Ophthalmophobia.
Staying single- Anuptaphobia.
Stealing- Cleptophobia
Step-father- Vitricophobia.
Stepmother- Novercaphobia.
Stings- Linonophobia.
Stories- Mythophobia.
Strangers - Xenophobia.
Streets- Agyrophobia.
Storm, thunder- Brontophobia.
Suffering - Panthophobia.
Sun - Heliophobia.
Sunshine - Phengophobia.
Surgeon's fear of operating- Ergasiophobia.
Surgical operations- Tomophobia.
Swallowing- Phagophobia.
Syphillis -Syphilophobia.
Tapeworms- Taeniophobia.
Taste- Geumaphobia or Geumophobia.
Technology- Technophobia.
Teeth- Odontophobia.
Telephones - Phonophobia or Telephonophobia.
Termites- Isopterophobia.
Tests- Testophobia.
Tetanus - Tetanophobia.
Theaters- Theatrophobia.
Thinking- Phronemophobia.
Thunder- Ceraunophobia.
Thunder - Astraphobia
Tickled - Pteronophobia.
Tied down- Merinthophobia.
Time - Chronophobia.
Toads- Bufonophobia.
Tombstones- Placophobia.
Tornadoes- Lilapsophobia.
Touched (being) - Aphenphosmphobia
Trains- Siderodromophobia.
Travel - Hodophobia.
Trees- Dendrophobia.
Trembling- Ttremophobia.
Trichinosis- Trichinophobia.
Ugliness- Cacophobia.
Undressing - Dishabillophobia.
Urine or urinating- Urophobia.
Vaccination- Vaccinophobia.
Vegetables- Lachanophobia.
Venereal disease - Cypridophobia
Vertigo - Illyngophobia.
Virginity (losing)- Primeisodophobia.
Vomiting- Emetophobia.
Walking- Ambulophobia
Washing- Abultophobia.
Wasps- Spheksophobia.
Water- Hydrophobia.
Waves - Cymophobia .
Wax statues- Automatonophobia.
Weakness- Asthenophobia.
Wealth- Plutophobia.
Weight- Obesophobia
Wet dreams- Oneirogmophobia.
Whirlpools- Dinophobia.
Wild animals- Agrizoophobia.
Wind- Ancraophobia
Wine- Oenophobia.
Witches- Wiccaphobia.
Women- Gynophobia.
Women (pretty)- Venstraphobia.
Words- Logophobia
Words (long)- Sesquipedalophobia.
Work- Ergophobia
Worms- Scoleciphobia.
Wrinkles (getting)- Rhytiphobia.
Writing- Graphophobia.
Writing in public- Scriptophobia
X-rays - Radiophobia.
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