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Fear of Flying
(redirected from aerophobia)

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Fear of Flying
metaphor for housewife Isadora Wing’s temporary inability to achieve self-awareness. [Am. Lit.: Fear of Flying]
See : Entrapment
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Patients with hydrophobia (defined as phobic generalized spasms and inspiratory spasms against a closed glottis in response to the offer of a glass of water) or aerophobia (a similar response to blowing air across the cheek) were defined clinically as having rabies encephalitis.
Rabies encephalitis in malaria-endemic area, Malawi, Africa by Solomon, Tom / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Patients exhibited paresis, paralysis, dyspnea and difficulties of speech, soreness or lethargy, photophobia, aerophobia, hydrophobia, and coma, symptoms similar to those previously reported in other vampire bat-transmitted rabies outbreaks (1,5,7,21-24).
Bat-transmitted human rabies outbreaks, Brazilian Amazon by Vasconcelos, Pedro F.C. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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