Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal fear of blood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hematophobia .
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- noun
Fear ofblood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'd googled "fear of blood" hemophobia last night and read that it may result from a traumatic physical experience.
My Dangerous Life Fresca 2009
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I'd googled "fear of blood" hemophobia last night and read that it may result from a traumatic physical experience.
Archive 2009-12-01 Fresca 2009
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Doc Martin (ITV1, Sunday), back for a long-awaited fourth series last night, stars Martin Clunes as a surgeon who is forced to take up a new career as a GP in a Cornish fishing village after he develops hemophobia, a fear of blood so extreme that he turns grey and throws up at the mere sight of the stuff.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word hemophobia
JM knows that hemophobia is bloody awful.
April 24, 2010