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OP Is there a word for the fear of medical instruments?
There's a Greek-prefix-plus-phobia word for almost everything.
Iatrophobia is a fear of doctors, nosocomephobia of hospitals, pharmacophobia of drugs.
I read recently, however, that these days psychologists just use the pedestrian word for the thing following by, "phobia"; thus, cat phobia, not ailurophobia. Why daunt the already troubled phobic with big words? What if they have a fear of big words? Does hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia really improve matters?
But why not start out by browsing Wiki's long list of phobias?
Last edited by Hydra; 06/24/08 04:41 PM. Reason: Corrected misspell
Latrophobia
Possibly a typo, but a fear of doctors is iatrophobia.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Jo: I doubt if there is but if you haven't already been there you might try
http://onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp2&clue=+phobia+medical+instruments
dalehileman
Since there isn't a single generic word for medical instruments (though I suppose zmjezhd is about to correct me on that), I doubt there's a word for fear of them.
Actually don't psychologists these days talk about anxiety complexes or some other term? Isn't 'phobia' a bit old school?
Originally Posted By: zmjezhdLatrophobia
Possibly a typo, but a fear of doctors is iatrophobia.
I just snatched that off Google.
But it's probably yet another case of a capital i being mistaken for a lowercase L.
I just snatched that off Google.
At first I read it as a bad joke: latro, latronis, 'thief'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
You grossly overestimate my logodaedaly!
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