Hæmophobia

Origin

- + phobia + -

Full definition of hæmophobia

Noun

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.