cardiophobe

English

Etymology

From cardio- +‎ -phobe.

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Noun

cardiophobe (plural cardiophobes)

  1. A person who has cardiophobia.
    • 1928 December 15, Frank J. Hirschboeck, “Treatment of Functional Heart Disease”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association‎[1], volume 91, number 24, →DOI, page 1852:
      Though the hardened campaigner himself may at times be misled, the diagnosis of heart disease is presently about as conclusive as that of any organ in the body, and the differentiation of benign from organic states is almost invariably above the realm of equivocation.
      In discussing the more specific management of the functional states, therefore, I eliminate from consideration those patients who have anatomic and physiologic alterations cognizant with our present methods, and will consider briefly those who have sychoneuroses with somatic cardiac symptoms, and the cardiophobe; the patient with neurocirculatory asthenia; and, as a corollary to the former, those who suffer from true organic cardiac disease but with an additional psychic implantation.
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