Word: phobic
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...Relief may be at hand for the needle-phobic: researchers have created a nasal spray that vaccinates mice against Lyme disease. Sprays protecting humans against such diseases as diarrhea and pneumonia are next...
...strike on the Soviet Union. The general is the kind of man who carries a machine gun and artillery belt in his golf bag. His companion in his final hour is Captain Mandrake, a young Peter Sellers in the role of a British officer at the mercy of commie-phobic Yanks...
Nathans, who describes herself as formerly "computer-phobic," said this switch will help students to become more comfortable with computers...
...seen such reactions before. "Manypeople are reluctant to talk about [anxiety]because it invokes terror," he explains. "They mayhave a phobic reaction to that. Phobias andanxiety dreams go together...
Clinical manuals characterize anorexia nervosa as "a phobic avoidance of food" in the presence of a loss of about 15 percent of one's body weight. Bulimia, on the other hand, is associated with the cycle of uncontrolled eating ("binging") and subsequent ridding of the body of unwanted food ("purging...