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单词 tokophobe
释义

tokophobe

English

Etymology

From toko- + -phobe.

Noun

tokophobe (plural tokophobes)

  1. One who has tokophobia.
    • [1986, David Grambs, Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe Life’s Indescribable People, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 124:
      tocophobe (tō´kō fōb´) A woman who dreads childbirth—or her husband who does also, for that matter. Most tocophobes have not yet had a child and are apprehensive about the graduation ceremony from being a unigravida. Some are already mothers but still (with good reason) dread labor pains. A tocophobe, or maieusiophobe, should probably know a good levatrice (midwife).]
    • 2010 March 4, Jessie Hewitson, “'I have a phobia of pregnancy'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 February 2014:
      [Kristina] Hofberg separates sufferers into two categories: primary tokophobes, who fear childbirth before pregnancy, and secondary ones, whose fear is ignited by a traumatic birth. [] Some tokophobes think they will die; others imagine something unbearable happening.
    • 2011 March 19, Ben Wakeling, “Overcoming Tokophobia (Fear Of Pregnancy And Child Birth)”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 9 December 2022:
      Helen Mirren revealed herself to be a tokophobe in 2007, pinpointing the origin of her phobia to a distressing educational film about childbirth shown to her at school when she was a teenager. [] For many, it is the end of pregnancy that holds the most fear, which is why the majority of tokophobes request elective Caesarean sections to help ease their worries.
    • 2015, Sally Pairman; ‎Jan Pincombe; ‎Carol Thorogood; Sally Tracy, “Challenges to Women’s Health”, in Midwifery: Preparation for Practice, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 183:
      [Kristina] Hofberg and [Ian] Brockington (2000) divide sufferers into two categories: primary tocophobes, who fear childbirth before pregnancy, and secondary tocophobes, whose fear is ignited by a traumatic birth.
    • 2016 July 6, Chris Bodenner, “Confessions of a Tokophobe”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 9 December 2022:
      Confessions of a Tokophobe
    • 2018 February 2, George F. Winter, “Tocophobia”, in British Journal of Midwifery, volume 26, number 2, DOI:bjom.2018.26.2.129:
      Describing her reaction to a film on childbirth that was shown at her school, Dame Helen Mirren once commented: ‘I swear it traumatised me to this day. I haven’t had children and now I can’t look at anything to do with childbirth. It absolutely disgusts me’ (Shears, 2007). One might infer that Dame Helen is a tocophobe: someone with a severe fear of childbirth.
    • 2021 November, M. A. O’Connell; C. R. Martin; J. Jomeen, “Reconsidering fear of birth: Language matters”, in Midwifery, volume 102, DOI:j.midw.2021.103079:
      [] a tokophobe, always a tokophobe’.
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