Medical Phobias

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The word phobia comes from the Greek word for fear ( fobos). In medical terms 'Phobia' is an anxiety disorder. It is estimated that in USA - 5.1% to 21.5% people suffer from some kind of phobia.

Women are more prone to have a phobia and this can be the cause for serious disability.

The opposite of the suffix -phobia is a - philia or -philie (meaning "love of").

There are many more phobias described than what are medically acceptable to be called a 'mental anxiety disorder'. Some of these phobias actually mean a 'negative attitude towards something.'

Medindia's 531 listed phobias include both types.

Browse the Phobia Alphabetically

Total - 531 / Alphabet A - 68
S. No	Phobias	Description
1	Ablutophobia	Fear of washing or bathing.

2	Acarophobia	Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
3	Acerophobia	Fear of sourness.
4	Achluophobia	Fear of darkness.
5	Acousticophobia	Fear of noise.
6	Acrophobia	Fear of heights.
7	Aerophobia	Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances.
8	Aeroacrophobia	Fear of open high places.
9	Aeronausiphobia	Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.

10	Agoraphobia	Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets.
11	Agraphobia	Fear of sexual abuse.
12	Agrizoophobia	Fear of wild animals.
13	Agyrophobia	Fear of streets or crossing the street.
14	Aichmophobia	Fear of needles or pointed objects.

15	Ailurophobia	Fear of cats.
16	Albuminurophobia	Fear of kidney disease.
17	Alektorophobia	Fear of chickens.
18	Algophobia	Fear of pain.
19	Alliumphobia	Fear of garlic.
20	Allodoxaphobia	Fear of opinions.
21	Altophobia	Fear of heights.
22	Amathophobia	Fear of dust.
23	Amaxophobia	Fear of riding in a car.
24	Ambulophobia	Fear of walking.

25	Amnesiphobia	Fear of amnesia.
26	Amychophobia	Fear of scratches or being scratched.
27	Anablepobia	Fear of looking up.
28	Ancraophobia or Anemophobia	Fear of wind.
29	Androphobia	Fear of men.
30	Anemophobia	Fear of air drafts or wind.
31	Anginophobia	Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
32	Anglophobia	Fear of England, English culture, etc.
33	Angrophobia	Fear of becoming angry.
34	Ankylophobia	Fear of immobility of a joint.
35	Anthrophobia or Anthophobia	Fear of flowers.
36	Anthropophobia	Fear of people or society.
37	Antlophobia	Fear of floods.
38	Anuptaphobia	Fear of staying single.
39	Apeirophobia	Fear of infinity.
40	Aphenphosmphobia	Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
41	Apiphobia	Fear of bees.
42	Apotemnophobia	Fear of persons with amputations.
43	Arachibutyrophobia	Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
44	Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia	Fear of spiders.
45	Arithmophobia	Fear of numbers.
46	Arrhenphobia	Fear of men.
47	Arsonphobia	Fear of fire.
48	Asthenophobia	Fear of fainting or weakness.
49	Astraphobia or Astrapophobia	Fear of thunder and lightning.
50	Astrophobia	Fear of stars and celestial space.
51	Asymmetriphobia	Fear of asymmetrical things.
52	Ataxiophobia	Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)
53	Ataxophobia	Fear of disorder or untidiness.
54	Atelophobia	Fear of imperfection.
55	Atephobia	Fear of ruins.
56	Athazagoraphobia	Fear of being forgotten or ignored or forgetting.
57	Atomosophobia	Fear of atomic explosions.
58	Atychiphobia	Fear of failure.
59	Aulophobia	Fear of flutes.
60	Aurophobia	Fear of gold.
61	Auroraphobia	Fear of Northern lights.
62	Autodysomophobia	Fear of one that has a vile odor.
63	Automatonophobia	Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsely represents a sentient being.
64	Automysophobia	Fear of being dirty.
65	Autophobia	Fear of being alone or of oneself.
66	Aviophobia or Aviatophobia	Fear of flying.
67	Agliophobia	Fear of Pain
68	amaxophobia	Get palpitations and get terrified while riding in any vehicle

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