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hæmophobia

hæmophobia

See also: haemophobia

English

Noun

hæmophobia (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hemophobia
    • 1910, Max Neuburger, History of Medicine; Volume I of II, page 72:
      Surgery, owing to the lack of anatomical knowledge, and to the national hæmophobia, has never risen above the most primitive level; obstetrics remains almost exclusively the province of the midwife.