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Fear
The affective response to an actual current external danger which subsides with the elimination of the threatening condition.
Zoophobia [Supplementary Concept]
excessive or unreasonable fear of animals
Date introduced: September 20, 2021
Mysophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Belonephobia [Supplementary Concept]
Chromophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Anthropophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Ophidiophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Necrophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Nyctophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Phobia, Social
Anxiety disorder characterized by the persistent and irrational fear, anxiety, or avoidance of social or performance situations.
Year introduced: 2017
Dental Anxiety
Abnormal fear or dread of visiting the dentist for preventive care or therapy and unwarranted anxiety over dental procedures.
Year introduced: 1992
foi protein, Drosophila [Supplementary Concept]
may be a regulator of E-cadherin expression or function; has been sequenced; RefSeq NM_079250
Date introduced: November 6, 2003
Kinesiophobia
Anxiety disorder of persistent and irrational fear of movement following an injury. It is related to perceived disability due to injury and CATASTROPHIZING in fear of (anticipated) PAIN and possibility of REINJURY.
Year introduced: 2023
Anthophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Glossophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Technophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Chronophobia [Supplementary Concept]
Xenophobia
Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
Year introduced: 2015
FeaR protein, E coli [Supplementary Concept]
Date introduced: December 19, 2013
Epilepsy, Nocturnal Frontal Lobe, Type 4 [Supplementary Concept]
mutation in CHRNA2
Date introduced: November 5, 2012