acarophobiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌækəɹəˈfəʊbi.ə/

名詞

acarophobia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The fear of itching or of small crawling insects that cause itching, such as mites or lice.

   His acarophobia was obvious from his reaction when I told him he had lice.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Dr. Gale E. Ridge, “Delusory parasitosis. The belief of being lived on by arthropods or other organisms”, in The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station‎, page 1:

     The term delusions of parasitosis was coined by Wilson and Miller (1946) dispelling earlier use of the word acarophobia (Thibierge 1894), entomophobia, and parasitophobia.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:acarophobia.