acrophobia是什麽意思

acrophobia

英 [,ækrə'fəʊbɪə] 美 [,ækrə'fobɪə]

acrophobia (n.): "morbid fear of heights," 1887, medical Latin, from Greek akros "at the end, the top" (see acrid) + -phobia "fear." Coined by Italian physician Dr. Andrea Verga in a paper describing the condition, from which Verga himself suffered.
In this paper, read somewhat over a year ago at the congress of alienists at Pavia, the author makes confession of his own extreme dread of high places. Though fearless of the contagion of cholera, he has palpitations on mounting a step-ladder, finds it unpleasant to ride on the top of a coach or to look out of even a first-story window, and has never used an elevator. ["American Journal of Psychology," Nov. 1888, abstract of Verga's report]

1. Having heart disease, hypertension or acrophobia or feeling bad.: 患心髒病、高血壓、恐高症者,身體感覺不適者.

2. She has acrophobia and always becomes dizzy in a high - rise elevator.: 她有恐高症,到了高樓的電梯裏就發暈.

3. Claustrophobia and acrophobia in the same place, like two people in abed.: 反在那裏,幽閉症和恐高症同時並存, 就像兩小我睡反在一馳床上.