A specific phobia centered on medical care, bodily harm, illness or a particular state of one's own body, frequently overlapping with a documented avoidance of needed medical treatment because the phobia itself interferes with seeking care. This group gathers the medical and body-state phobias recorded under Psychology's Specific Phobias group, including fears of needles, blood, medical procedures, dentistry, disease and contamination, alongside phobias centered on a specific body part or bodily process, distinguishing these from the broader body-focused clinical phenomena gathered elsewhere in this subcategory by their shared identity as a named, diagnosable phobia rather than a general somatic symptom.