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Specific phobia — A specific phobia is a generic term for any kind of anxiety disorder that amounts to an unreasonable or irrational fear related to exposure to specific objects or situations. As a result, the affected persons tend to actively avoid direct contact … Wikipedia
specific phobia — [DSM IV] an anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and excessive or unreasonable fear of a circumscribed, well defined object or situation, in contrast to fear of being alone or of public places (agoraphobia) or fear of embarrassment in… … Medical dictionary
Phobia — A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning fear or morbid fear ) is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically… … Wikipedia
Specific social phobia — Mental health professionals often distinguish between generalized social phobia and specific social phobia.People with generalized social phobia have great distress in a wide range of social situations. Those with specific social phobia may… … Wikipedia
Phobia — An unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a relatively common type of anxiety disorder. For example, extreme fear of spiders is called arachnophobia, and fear of being outside is known as agoraphobia. Phobias… … Medical dictionary
phobia — /foh bee euh/, n. a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it. [1780 90; extracted from nouns ending in PHOBIA] Syn. aversion, hatred. * * * Extreme and irrational fear… … Universalium
Phobia, social — Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating effects on personal and professional relationships. Phobias are persistent, irrational fears of certain objects or situations. They… … Medical dictionary
-phobia — 1) a pathologically strong fear of a particular event or thing. Avoiding the feared situation may severely restrict one s life and cause much suffering. The main kinds of phobia are specific phobias (isolated fears of particular things, such as… … The new mediacal dictionary
phobia — pho•bi•a [[t]ˈfoʊ bi ə[/t]] n. pl. bi•as psi a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it • Etymology: 1780–90; extracted from nouns ending in phobia … From formal English to slang
Blood phobia — (also, AE: Hemophobia, BE: Haemophobia) is the extreme and irrational fear of blood. Acute cases of this fear can cause physical reactions that are uncommon in most other fears, specifically vasovagal syncope (fainting). [cite web title = The… … Wikipedia
