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hæmatophobia

hæmatophobia

See also: haematophobia

English

Noun

hæmatophobia (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hematophobia
    • 1889, Eduard Heinrich Henoch and John Thomson, Lectures on Children’s Diseases, The new Sydenham Society; Volume II, § VII, page 160:
      Perhaps I should have saved the lives of many children had I not been so infected by the hæmatophobia of our time that I have entirely abandoned the practice of blood‐letting for the last 20 years.