defecalgesiophobia
English edit
Etymology edit
From defec(ate) + algesi(a) + -o- + -phobia.
Noun edit
defecalgesiophobia (uncountable)
- (medicine) Fear of painful bowel movements.
- 1920, The Medical Pickwick: A Monthly Literary Magazine of Wit and Wisdom:
- Defecalgesiophobia, it has been called. Anusol Suppositories promptly remove the strain. And, with it, this most aggravating complication.
- 1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company:
- […] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.
- 1936, The Canadian Medical Association Journal[1]:
- Defecalgesiophobia―The dread of defecation because of pain is the starting point in the vicious circle of hemorrhoids. It results in constipation, and constipation favors hemorrhoid formation.
- 2004, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, “Phobos”, in Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition[2], page 103:
- I guess a merinthophobic sadist / Would be unable to get satisfaction, / Unless he conquered his defecaloesiophobia [sic], / And focused down there for his action.