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| | Why can't we agree on the names for phobias? | The Register |
 | | Yet for reasons unknown, the mental health profession cannot agree on the term to be used for many of the most common phobias. |
 | | There are 11 names for the persistent and irrational fear of being dirty - Automysophobia, Coprophobia, Misophobia, Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Rupophobia, Rypophobia, Scatophobia, Spermophobia, and Verminophobia. |
 | | There are eight names for the persistent and irrational fear of water - Aquaphobia, Caninophobia, Cynophobia, Hydrophobia, Hydrophobophobia, Kynophobia, Lyssophobia, and Nautophobia. |
| www.theregister.com /2006/06/23/the_odd_body_phobias (414 words) |
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