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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread word sought #177718 06/24/2008 7:40 AM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 Maharashtra, India Pallavi Joshi stranger Pallavi Joshi stranger Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 Maharashtra, India Is there a word for the fear of medical instruments? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought Pallavi Joshi #177726 06/24/2008 12:14 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 Hydra addict Hydra addict Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 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; 06/24/2008 4:41 PM. Reason: Corrected misspell Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought Hydra #177727 06/24/2008 12:33 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Latrophobia Possibly a typo, but a fear of doctors is iatrophobia. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought zmjezhd #177729 06/24/2008 2:09 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought Pallavi Joshi #177731 06/24/2008 2:46 PM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought zmjezhd #177736 06/24/2008 4:40 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 Hydra addict Hydra addict Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631  Originally Posted By: zmjezhd Latrophobia 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought Hydra #177765 06/25/2008 7:06 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh I just snatched that off Google. At first I read it as a bad joke: latro, latronis, 'thief'. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: word sought zmjezhd #177770 06/25/2008 12:49 PM Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 Hydra addict Hydra addict Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 631 You grossly overestimate my logodaedaly! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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