Ailurophobia

Classification according to ICD-10
F40.2	Specific (isolated) phobias Animal phobias
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Under Ailurophobie (from ancient Greek αἴλουρος ailuros , German , cat ' , and φόβος Phobos , German , Fear , other transcriptions: Aelurophobie, Elurophobie) is the fear before cats . Seldom used terms for this behavior are felinophobia , galeophobia (actually "weasel fear"; since the Greeks only knew weasels for a long time, cats were initially referred to as weasels) and gatophobia (modern loanword of Germanic origin).

In contrast to other animal phobias such as arachnophobia (fear of spiders ) or cynophobia (fear of dogs ), ailurophobia is usually hidden from those affected.

An Iranian study on the prevalence of anxiety disorders confirmed the high proportion of cat phobias.

Web links

Wiktionary: Ailurophobia - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

^ P. Reuter: Springer large dictionary medicine . Springer Science + Business Media, ISBN 978-3-540-21352-9
↑ Peter Reuter: Springer Pocket Dictionary Medicine . Springer, Heidelberg 2005
↑ Kamil Rogala on wieszjak.pl
↑ L. Daneshmand: A note on the relative prevalence of phobic reactions in population in Iranian psychiatric . In: Acta Psychiatr Belg. , 1976 Jul-Aug, 76 (4), pp. 579-585, PMID 1020688 .

[1] P. Reuter: Springer large dictionary medicine . Springer Science + Business Media, ISBN 978-3-540-21352-9

[2] Peter Reuter: Springer Pocket Dictionary Medicine . Springer, Heidelberg 2005

[3] Kamil Rogala on wieszjak.pl

[4] L. Daneshmand: A note on the relative prevalence of phobic reactions in population in Iranian psychiatric . In: Acta Psychiatr Belg. , 1976 Jul-Aug, 76 (4), pp. 579-585, PMID 1020688 .