Tomophobia is the fear of invasive medical procedures, including surgery, injections or diagnostic tests that penetrate the body. It commonly leads to avoidance of necessary medical care, and it overlaps with related fears such as belonephobia and blood-injection-injury type phobia, with which it shares many physiological features including a tendency toward fainting.
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Type of Phenomenon Diagnostic ChapterAnxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2 Sources
1. Tomophobia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Tomophobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)View the Source 2. ICD-11 Browser (WHO)
World Health Organization
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