Medical phobias
Fears linked to health and medical care, from needles and blood to dentists, hospitals and being sick.
- Fear of ageing (gerascophobia)
- Fear of bad breath (halitophobia)
- Fear of bathing and washing (ablutophobia)
- Fear of blood (haemophobia)
- Fear of being buried alive (taphophobia)
- Fear of cancer (carcinophobia)
- Fear of choking (pseudodysphagia)
- Fear of contracting a disease (nosophobia)
- Fear of corpses and dead things (necrophobia)
- Fear of COVID-19 (coronaphobia)
- Fear of death (thanatophobia)
- Fear of the dentist (dentophobia)
- Fear of doctors (iatrophobia)
- Fear of fainting (asthenophobia)
- Fear of food (cibophobia)
- Fear of gaining weight (obesophobia)
- Fear of germs (mysophobia)
- Fear of going insane (agateophobia)
- Fear of heart disease or heart attack (cardiophobia)
- Fear of hospitals (nosocomephobia)
- Fear of injury (traumatophobia)
- Fear of medication (pharmacophobia)
- Fear of mould (mycophobia)
- Fear of movement (kinesiophobia)
- Fear of needles (trypanophobia)
- Fear of nudity (gymnophobia)
- Fear of pain (algophobia)
- Fear of being poisoned (toxiphobia)
- Fear of sharp objects (aichmophobia)
- Fear of being sick (emetophobia)
- Fear of sleep (hypnophobia)
- Fear of surgery (tomophobia)
- Fear of swallowing (phagophobia)
- Fear of being touched (haphephobia)
- Fear of vaccines (vaccinophobia)
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