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Definition: Claustrophobia |
ClaustrophobiaNoun1. A morbid fear of being closed in a confined space. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "claustrophobia" was first used: 1879 from the Latin expression "claustrum" or "a bolt". (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder that involves the fear of enclosed or confined spaces. Claustrophobes may suffer from panic attacks in situations such as being in elevators, trains or aircraft. Conversely, people who are prone to having panic attacks will often develop claustrophobia. If a panic attack occurs while they are in a confined space then they will be unable to escape the situation.Claustrophobes may also fear being in crowds.
Claustrophobia can be treated in similar ways to other anxiety disorders, with a range of treatments including cognitive behavior therapy and the use of antidepressant medication.
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Related Link:
- agoraphobia
- List of phobias
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Claustrophobia."
Crosswords: Claustrophobia |
| English words defined with "claustrophobia": claustrophobic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "claustrophobia": bitty box ♦ rapture of the deep. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Claustrophobia (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Not a good place for claustrophobia Along the trail in Salmon River Canyon Reconnaissance party of Oscar Risvold. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Claustrophobia" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Elevator's roof turned upside down to get a kewl effect." |
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| "Claustrophobia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Claustrophobia" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.55% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
claustrophobia | 117 |
claustrophobia mri | 7 |
claustrophobia treatment | 5 |
claustrophobia information | 4 |
cause claustrophobia | 4 |
claustrophobia statistics | 3 |
claustrophobia cure | 3 |
claustrophobia symptom | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "claustrophobia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مرض الخوف من الأماكن الضيقة, خوف المرضي من الأماكن المقفلة, رهاب الإحتجاز. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страх от затворени пространства, клаустрофобия. (various references) | |
Czech | klaustrofobie. (various references) | |
Danish | klaustrofobi. (various references) | |
Dutch | cleitrophobia, cleisiophobia, claustrophobia, claustrofobie, opsluitingsvrees. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرض ترس ازفضای تنگ ومحصور(طب), تنگناترس . (various references) | |
French | claustrophobie. (various references) | |
German | klaustrophobie, Raumangst, platzangst (agoraphobia). (various references) | |
Greek | κλειστοφοβία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קלאוסטרופוביה, פחד ממקום סגור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zárthely-iszony, klausztrofóbia. (various references) | |
Italian | claustrofobia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 閉所恐怖症 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へいしょきょうふしょう, へいじょきょうふしょう. (various references) | |
Manx | feoh chionney. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | austrophobiaclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | claustrofobia. (various references) | |
Romanian | claustrofobie. (various references) | |
Russian | клаустрофобия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klaustrofobija. (various references) | |
Spanish | claustrofobia. (various references) | |
Swedish | cellskräck, klaustrofobi. (various references) | |
Turkish | klostrofobi, kapalı yer korkusu. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | claustrum. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "claustrophobia": claustrophobias. (additional references) | |
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"Claustrophobia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clastrophobia, clausetrophobia, claustophobia, clostrophobia. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "claustrophobia" (pronounced klô'strufō"bēu) |
| 6 | -u f ō" b ē u | homophobia, xenophobia. |
| 5 | -f ō" b ē u | phobia. |
| 4 | -ō" b ē u | cobia. |
| 3 | -b ē u | Gambia, suburbia, tibia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: acrophobias, blastoporic, subtropical. | |
-4 letters: acrophobia, alacritous, haustorial, patchoulis, politburos, portulacas, ultrabasic. | |
-5 letters: acroliths, acropolis, apostolic, asphaltic, atrocious, atrophias, auctorial, authorial, bicoastal, bicolours, brachials, braciolas, calthrops, capitular, clubroots, coauthors, cobaltous, copublish, courtship, crapshoot, haustoria, holocaust, isophotal, laborious, lotharios, ocularist, pachoulis, parabolic, parochial, pastorali, patchouli, politburo, portulaca, rapacious, sociopath, spoliator, subapical, subtropic, suctorial, trochilus, troopials. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: claustrophobias. | |
+4 letters: claustrophobically. | |
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