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.