odontophobic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having an irrational fear of dentistry.
Example Sentences
- "Odontophobia is a rather unique phobia with special psychosomatic components that impact on the dental health of odontophobic persons."
- "Clearly, some odontophobic patients have a perception of the dental environment as threatening beyond just the threat of physically painful treatment."
- "Odontophobics are normally inclined to continually postpone treatment, clinging to pharmacological therapies (antibiotics and/or painkillers) which, postponing the solution of the problem, produce a serious worsening of the initial picture with a progressive loss of mastication and a consequent aesthetic compromise [2]."
Etymology
From odonto- + -phobic.