Pharmacophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pharmacophobia is a noun meaning The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.
Meaning
The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.
Example Sentences
Suggest a dinner-pill or a seidlitz powder, and his face is convulsed with a fanatical pharmacophobia! His soul abhors the doing of such profane violence to the processes of nature!
2005, I. Sibitz et al, “Pharmacophilia and Pharmacophobia: Determinants of Patients’ Attitudes towards Antipsychotic Medication”, in Pharmacopsychiatry, Thieme Medical Publishers, pages 38: 107–112.
Summary: Five cases are described in which fear of the possibly hazardous effects of giving amphotericin to patients with kidney disease resulted in death from a progressive infection by an amphotericin-sensitive fungus ([…]).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include medicophobia, opioidophobia, phobia, steroidophobia, phobophobia, toxicophobia.
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