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Acrophobia

An abnormally excessive and persistent fear of heights. Sufferers experience severe anxiety even though they usually realize that, as a rule, heights pose no real threat to them. Derived from the Greek "acron", height + "phobos", fear.

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Morbid fear of heights. [acro- + G. phobos, fear]

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ac·ro·pho·bia .ak-rə-'fō-bē-ə n abnormal or pathological dread of being in a high place: fear of heights

ac·ro·pho·bic -bik adj

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ac·ro·pho·bia (ak″ro-foґbe-ə) [acro- + -phobia] irrational fear of heights.

Medical dictionary. 2011.