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opiophobia

opiophobia noun: an aversion to prescribing opiates.

Noun

opiophobia (uncountable)

  1. An aversion to prescribing opiates.
    • The rise of opiophobia among clinicians could be one explanation. Additionally, as pointed out previously, health care professionals are frequently not trained to prescribe opioid analgesics.2015 August 28, Darko Krnic et al., “National consumption of opioid and nonopioid analgesics in Croatia: 2007–2013”, in Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, volume 11, →DOI

opiophobia meaning in Tamil

opiophobia in Tamil

மருந்துச்சீட்டு வெருளி

Origin of opiophobia

From opio- + -phobia.

Questions about opiophobia

What does opiophobia mean?
Opiophobia means an aversion to prescribing opiates.
What is opiophobia in Tamil?
Opiophobia in Tamil is மருந்துச்சீட்டு வெருளி. See Opiophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is opiophobia?
Opiophobia is a noun.

Words near opiophobia in the dictionary

  1. opiophile
  2. opiophiles
  3. opiophilia
  4. opiophobe
  5. opiophobes
  6. opiophobia
  7. opiophobic
  8. opiorphin
  9. opiorphins
  10. opiparous
  11. opipramol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opiophobia (page history and authors); opiophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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