tokophobia — tocophobia; n. a profound fear of childbirth. There are two types: primary tokophobia, which develops in adolescence and causes many women to avoid childbirth altogether; and secondary tokophobia, which occurs after a traumatic delivery and can… … The new mediacal dictionary
Fear of childbirth — Tokophobia, or fear of childbirth, is a form of specific phobia. Other terms for the condition include tocophobia and parturiphobia.Psychological disorderIn 2000, an article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (2000, 176: 83 85)… … Wikipedia
-phobia — The English suffixes phobia, phobic, phobe ( of Greek origin: φόβος/φοβία ) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g., agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe… … Wikipedia
Childbirth — Parturition redirects here. For the Voyager episode, see Parturition (Star Trek: Voyager). Childbirth (also called labor, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more… … Wikipedia
Childfree — (sometimes spelled child free) also known as voluntary childlessness [1] is a form of childlessness. The term was coined in the English language late in the 20th century[2] and is used to describe people who have made a personal decision not to… … Wikipedia
Adultism — is a predisposition towards adults, which some see as biased against children, youth, and all young people who aren t addressed or viewed as adults. Adultism is popularly used to describe any discrimination against young people and is… … Wikipedia
List of phobias — This article is about the suffix phobia. For the class of psychological disorders, see Phobia. Contents 1 Psychological conditions 1.1 Animal phobias … Wikipedia
tocofobie — TOCOFOBÍE s.f. (med.) Fobie de naştere. [gen. iei. / cf. gr. tokos – naştere, phobos – frică]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DN TOCOFOBÍE s. f. teamă patologică de naştere. (< engl. tokophobia) … Dicționar Român
tocophobia — n.; see tokophobia … The new mediacal dictionary
