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tomophobia

tomophobia noun: an unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.

Noun

tomophobia (uncountable)

  1. (neologism, rare) An unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.
    • Tomophobia is the fear of surgical procedures or medical intervention.2020 May 15, “What is tomophobia?”, in Tomophobia: When the Fear of Surgery and Other Medical Procedures Becomes a Phobia
    • If you have tomophobia, it might be hard to get to the doctor at all; it’s the fear of surgical procedures and medical interventions.2020 December 29, “Tomophobia: fear of medical procedures”, in Five common medical phobias

tomophobia meaning in Tamil

tomophobia in Tamil

அறுவை மருத்துவ வெருளி

Examples of tomophobia in a sentence

  • Tomophobia refers to fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.2009 November 18, “Introduction”, in Tomophobia, the phobic fear caused by an invasive medical procedure - an emerging anxiety disorder: a...
  • Tomophobia is the fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.2021 February 16, Tomophobia - the fear that isn’t:
  • He wasn't keen on spiders and snakes, but his major one, the one that had always haunted and taunted him is referred to medically as tomophobia; the fear of surgical operations.2015 February 11, Michael Foxx, Spiteful Jack 2: Vengeance, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:

Origin of tomophobia

From tomo- + -phobia.

Questions about tomophobia

What does tomophobia mean?
Tomophobia means an unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.
What is tomophobia in Tamil?
Tomophobia in Tamil is அறுவை மருத்துவ வெருளி. See Tomophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use tomophobia in a sentence?
Tomophobia refers to fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.
What part of speech is tomophobia?
Tomophobia is a noun.

Words near tomophobia in the dictionary

  1. tomonoid
  2. tomonoids
  3. tomont
  4. tomonts
  5. tomopenem
  6. tomophobia
  7. tomopterid
  8. tomopterids
  9. tomoregulin
  10. tomoregulins
  11. Tomoritza

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tomophobia (page history and authors); tomophobia (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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