Taber’s Medical Dictionary

Phobias

Aging Gerontophobia

Air Aerophobia
Animals Zoophobia
Anything new Neophobia
Bacilli Bacillophobia
Bearing a deformed child Teratophobia
Bees Apiphobia, melissophobia
Being alone Isolophobia
Being buried alive Taphephobia
Being naked Nudophobia
Being poisoned Toxiphobia
Being tied Merinthophobia
Birds Ornithophobia
Blood Hematophobia, hemophobia
Blushing Ereuthrophobia
Body hair Hypertrichophobia
Brain disease Meningitophobia
Bridges (crossing of) Gephyrophobia
Cancer Carcinomatophobia
Cats Ailurophobia, galeophobia
Change or novelty Kainophobia
Childbirth Tocophobia, Parturiphobia
Choking Pnigophobia
Coitus Cypriphobia
Cold or something cold Psychrophobia
Color(s) Chromatophobia, chromophobia
Confinement Claustrophobia
Contamination or infection Molysmophobia
Corpses Necrophobia
Crowds Ochlophobia
Dampness Hygrophobia
Darkness Nyctophobia, scotophobia
Dawn Eosophobia
Daylight Phengophobia
Decision-Making Decidophobia
Death Thanatophobia
Defecating Defecalgesiophobia
Defecation, feces, filth Rhypophobia
Definite, specific disease Monopathophobia
Deformity Dysmorphophobia
Depth Bathophobia
Developing a phobia Phobophobia
Dirt Mysophobia, rupophobia
Disease Nosophobia, pathophobia
Dogs Cynophobia
Dolls Pediophobia
Drafts Anemophobia
Drinking Dipsophobia
Dust Amathophobia
Eating Phagophobia
Electricity Electrophobia
Emptiness Kenophobia, cenophobia
Error Hamartophobia
Everything Panphobia, panophobia, pantophobia
Excrement Coprophobia
Eyes Ommatophobia
Failure Kakorrhaphiophobia
Fatigue Kopophobia
Feathers Pteronophobia
Fever Pyrexeophobia
Filth Mysophobia
Filth or odor, personal Automysophobia
Fire Pyrophobia
Fish Ichthyophobia
Floods Antlophobia
Fog Homichlophobia
Food Cibophobia, sitophobia
Foods containing protein Proteinophobia
Forest Hylophobia
Frogs Batrachophobia
Gaiety Cherophobia
Ghosts Phasmophobia
Girls Parthenophobia
Glare of light Photaugiaphobia
Glass Crystallophobia, hyalophobia
God Theophobia
Gravity Barophobia
Hair Trichopathophobia
Heat Thermophobia
Height Acrophobia
Hell Hadephobia, stygiophobia
Heredity and hereditary disease Patroiophobia
High objects or being on tall buildings Batophobia
High places Hypsophobia
House, being in a Domatophobia, oikophobia
Ideas Ideophobia
Injury Traumatophobia
Innovation Neophobia
Insane, becoming Maniaphobia
Insects Acarophobia, entomophobia
Jealousy Zelophobia
Justice Dikephobia
Knife or pointed objects Aichmophobia
Large objects Megalophobia
Left Levophobia
Lice Pediculophobia
Light Photophobia
Lightning Astraphobia, astrapophobia, keraunophobia
Locked in, being Clithrophobia
Looked at, being Scopophobia
Machinery Mechanophobia
Many things Polyphobia
Marriage Gamophobia
Medicine Pharmacophobia
Men Androphobia
Metals Metallophobia
Mice Musophobia
Mild phobia Paraphobia
Mirror and seeing oneself in Eisoptrophobia, spectrophobia
Missiles Ballistophobia
Moisture Hygrophobia
Money Chrematophobia
Motion Kinesophobia
Myths Mythophobia
Naked body Gymnophobia
Name, hearing a certain Onomatophobia
Needles Belonephobia
Neglect or omission of duty Paralipophobia
Night Noctiphobia, nyctophobia
Northern lights Auroraphobia
Novelty Kainophobia, Cainotophobia
Number 13 Triskaidekaphobia
Odor Olfactophobia, osmophobia, osphresiophobia
Odor, personal Bromidrosiphobia
Open space Agoraphobia
Overwork Ponophobia
Pain Algophobia, odynophobia
Parasites Parasitophobia
People Anthropophobia
Place Topophobia
Pleasure Hedonophobia
Pointed objects Aichmophobia
Poison Iophobia, toxicophobia
Poverty Peniaphobia
Precipices Cremnophobia
Punishment Poinephobia
Rabies Cynophobia, lyssophobia
Radiation Radiophobia
Railroad or train Siderodromophobia
Rain or rain storm Ombrophobia
Rectal cancer Rectophobia
Rectum Proctophobia
Red Erythrophobia
Responsibility Hypengyophobia
Returning home Nostophobia
Right Dextrophobia
Rise in body temperature Febriphobia
River Potamophobia
Robbers Harpaxophobia
Rod or instrument of punishment Rhabdophobia
Ruin Atephobia
Rusty objects Iophobia
Sacred things Hierophobia
Scabies Scabiphobia
School School phobia
Scratches or being scratched Amychophobia
Sea Thalassophobia
Self Autophobia
Semen, loss of Spermatophobia
Sex Genophobia
Sexual intercourse Coitophobia
Sexually transmitted disease Venereophobia
Shock Hormephobia
Sin Hamartophobia
Sinning Peccatiphobia
Sitting Thaasophobia
Sitting down Kathisophobia
Skin of animals Doraphobia
Skin disease Dermatosiophobia
Skin lesion Dermatophobia
Sleep Hypnophobia
Small objects Microphobia, microbiophobia
Smothering Pnigerophobia
Snake Ophidiophobia
Snow Chionophobia
Solitude or being alone Eremophobia
Sounds Acousticophobia
Sourness Acerophobia
Speaking, talking Lalophobia
Spider Arachnophobia
Stairs Climacophobia
Standing up Stasiphobia
Standing or walking Stasibasiphobia
Stars Siderophobia
Stealing Kleptophobia
Stories Mythophobia
Strangers Xenophobia
Street Agyiophobia
String Linonophobia
Sunlight Heliophobia
Symbolism Symbolophobia
Syphilis Syphilophobia
Tabes dorsalis Tabophobia
Tapeworms Taeniophobia
Taste Geumaphobia
Teeth Odontophobia
Thinking Phronemophobia
Thunder Astraphobia, brontophobia
Thunder and lightning Keraunophobia
Time Chronophobia
Touched, being Haphephobia, haptephobia
Travel Hodophobia
Trembling Tremophobia
Trichinosis Trichinophobia
Tuberculosis Phthisiophobia, tuberculophobia
Vaccination Vaccinophobia
Vehicle, being in Amaxophobia
Venereal disease Cypridophobia
Voice, one’s own Phonophobia
Void Kenophobia
Vomiting Emetophobia
Walking Basiphobia
Water Hydrophobia
Weakness Asthenophobia
Wind Anemophobia
Women Gynephobia
Words, hearing certain Onomatophobia
Work Ergasiophobia
Worms Helminthophobia, verminophobia
Writing Graphophobia

SOURCE: Adapted from Campbell, R.J.: Psychiatric Dictionary, ed 8. Oxford University Press, N.Y., 2003.