syphiliphobia
English
Noun
syphiliphobia (countable and uncountable, plural syphiliphobias)
- Alternative form of syphilophobia
- 1870, Thomas Hawkes Tanner, The Practice of Medicine, page 322:
- Men, in most respects shrewd and sensible, become almost fatuous about their health under the influence of this syphiliphobia.
- 1910, Connecticut State Medical Society, Yale medical journal - Volume 16, page 176:
- The same authority has known two deaths by suicide from syphiliphobia, and gonophobia has resulted in the same way.
- 1916, The Urologic and Cutaneous Review - Volume 20, page 172:
- He was suffering from syphiliphobia and feared also impotency and insanity.
- 1916, Northwest Medicine - Volumes 15-16, page 193:
- We all know those syphiliphobias who try our patience extremely.
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