I swear I was trying to find out what a fear of being photographed is called, when I came upon this little gem. Please tell me that in this one instance “pg” is not pronounced as a “f”.
Phagophobia is a psychogenic dysphagia, a fear of swallowing.[1] It is expressed in various swallowing complaints without any apparent physical reason detectable by physical inspection and laboratory analyses. An obsolete term for this phobia is choking phobia,[2] but it was suggested that the latter term is confusing and it is necessary to distinguish the fear of swallowing (i.e., of the propulsion of bolus) from fear of choking.[1]
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9 responses to “Your ironic term of the day”
Wait, PHAG-ophobia is the fear of SWALLOWING? Or CHOKING?
In the immortal words of Arte Johnson…verrrry interesting.
Wonder what a shrink would say about your preoccupation with all things gay…..
We already know what shrinks say about you, Joe. Keep up on the meds, m’boy.
I know, right Joe? It’s almost as if I wanted to fellate the entire staff at Wiki, or, as if just by accident, as I stated earlier, I came upon Phagophobia and had a fear of choking on the good stories as a blogger.
Joe, it’s “ghey” not “gay.”
“Gay” is so last millenium.
Oh, and “phago” is a prefix derived from the Greek word “to eat.” Imagine that. Something Greek and ghey. Who’d have guessed?
*phew*
FINALLY… a previously unknown syndrome that I do NOT suffer from. 😉
Some of us read “phagophobia” and think of the common shorthand for bacteriophages. Of course, some of us are also nerdier than we like to admit. *cough*
*proceeds to look into etymological links*
Okay, a lot nerdier.
How in the hell do you just *stumble upon* this stuff???
Pure phaggotry.