rectophobia
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
rectophobia (uncountable)
- (rare) The fear of rectal disease.
- 1893, Chas. C. Allison, “Reflex Pain”, in The Denver Medical Times[1], volume 12, number 5, page 308:
- Careful investigation will, I am sure, account for the nervous rectum of Goodell, the rectophobia of Kelsey, and the irritable rectum of Matthews.
- 1914, A. Bennett Cooke, A treatise on diseases of the rectum and anus[2]:
- Some writers have used the term rectophobia to describe a condition of morbid foreboding, claimed to be peculiar to patients afflicted with rectal disease.
- 1932, International Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Surgical Journal:
- Cryptitis is the daddy of rectal neurasthenia, producing what we might term rectophobia, with the mental exhaustion, foreboding, fear and introspection which disturbed reflexes give to the victims of anal diseases.