photophonophobia

noun

Excessive sensitivity to light and sound; abnormal fear of light and sound.

Scrabble 33

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nounphotophonophobia (uncountable)

alternative phonophotophobia

  1. uncountablemedicineExcessive sensitivity to light and sound; abnormal fear of light and sound.

    2015, Charles Miller, Pathology-Anatomic Specialty Review and Study Guide: A Series from StatPearls, StatPearls Publishing, LLC A 16-year-old male is brought in for recurrent unilateral throbbing headaches with associated visual aura, nausea, vomiting, and photophonophobia.

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    Some people have some nausea or photophonophobia just as the headache begins. Others wake up with a full-blown migraine, sometimes vomiting, sometimes just nauseated.

    2004, Stewart J. Tepper, Understanding Migraine and Other Headaches, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 9

    As many as 50% of patients with TACs will refer their symptoms of photophonophobia to the ipsilateral, painful side, in contrast to migraineurs, who usually complain of bilateral light and sound sensitivity.

    2014, Stewart J. Tepper, Deborah Tepper, The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy: Second Edition, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 24

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