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名詞

defecalgesiophobia (uncountable)

1. (medicine, very rare) The fear of painful bowel movements.
   • 1920, The Medical Pickwick: A Monthly Literary Magazine of Wit and Wisdom:

     Defecalgesiophobia, it has been called. Anusol Suppositories promptly remove the strain. And, with it, this most aggravating complication.

   • 1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company:

     […] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.

   • 1936, The Canadian Medical Association Journal‎:

     Defecalgesiophobia―The dread of defecation because of pain is the starting point in the vicious circle of hemorrhoids. It results in constipation, and constipation favors hemorrhoid formation.

   • 2004, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, “Phobos”, in Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition‎, page 103:

     I guess a merinthophobic sadist / Would be unable to get satisfaction, / Unless he conquered his defecaloesiophobia , / And focused down there for his action.