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Psychiatry

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.

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murophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Latin mus for "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the ...

ophidiophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Ophidiophobia or ophiophobia is a particular type of specific phobia, the abnormal fear of snakes. Fear of snakes is sometimes called by a more general term, herpetophobia, fear ...

ornithophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Ornithophobia is a type of specific phobia, an abnormal, irrational fear of birds.

scoleciphobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

scoleciphobia, is the one who fears worms, actually people who fear worms have connected it with dead, when ''dead body'' is ''eaten' by worms, etc.

claustrophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Claustrophobia is the fear of having no escape and being closed in.

coulrophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Coulrophobia is an abnormal, irrational fear of clowns.

decidophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

decidophobia, is the fear of making decisions, regards extremely undecisive people, to the extent of ''passion'' .

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