Ophidiophobia, or ophiophobia, is the fear of snakes, sometimes called by the more general term herpetophobia, fear of reptiles. The word derives from the Ancient Greek ophis, snake, and phobia, fear.
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Type of Phenomenon Diagnostic ChapterAnxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2 Connections
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Source Ophidiophobia (Wikipedia)
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1. Ophidiophobia (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia Ophidiophobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)
In Branch: Abnormal Psychology, Categories
Wikipedia article 'Ophidiophobia' is filed under Category:Zoophobias.
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