Definition of "pharmacophobia" in English

noun

1. The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.

   • Suggest a dinner-pill or a seidlitz powder, and his face is convulsed with a fanatical pharmacophobia! His soul abhors the doing of such profane violence to the processes of nature!
   • 2005, I. Sibitz et al, “Pharmacophilia and Pharmacophobia: Determinants of Patients’ Attitudes towards Antipsychotic Medication”, in Pharmacopsychiatry, Thieme Medical Publishers, pages 38: 107–112.