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Within Vinony's link graph, blood phobia is referenced by 44 other articles, and connects out to vasovagal response, blood and digital object identifier.
Vinony files it under Blood, Body-related phobias and Phobias.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Other names
- Hemophobia
- Specialty
- Psychiatry, clinical psychology
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Wikidata facts
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Encyclopedic overview
Blood phobia (also known as hemophobia or hematophobia in American English and haemophobia or haematophobia in British English) is an extreme fear of blood, a type of specific phobia. Severe cases of this fear can cause physical reactions that are uncommon in most other fears, specifically vasovagal syncope (fainting). Similar reactions can also occur with trypanophobia and traumatophobia. For this reason, these phobias are categorized as blood-injection-injury phobia by the DSM-IV. Some early texts refer to this category as "blood-injury-illness phobia."
Causes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “blood phobia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.