hodophobic

形容词 adj.
/ˌhɒdə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪk/    /ˌhɑdəˈfoʊbɪk/|/-doʊ-/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of the dendrites of neurons: tending not to form branches.
    — The majority of the territories usually included in the brain stem reticular formation exhibit the characteristic of "hodophilic" dendrites, in contrast to, for example, the inferior olive and pontine nuclei in which the dendrites are rarely found to extend into fiber bundles and could thus be described as "hodophobic."
  2. Suffering from hodophobia; pathologically afraid of travel.
    — Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, was hodophobic, afraid of traveling.

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more hodophobic comparative most hodophobic superlative

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From hodo- (prefix meaning ‘path, road; travel’) + -phobic (suffix forming adjectives indicating an aversion or dislike, or a fear of a specific thing). Hodo- is derived from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “path, road, way; journey”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); while -phobic is from -phobia (from Late Latin -phobia, from Koine Greek -φοβία (-phobía), ultimately from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “alarm, fear, terror”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ- (“to flee, run”)) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ from nouns).
Sense 1 (“of the dendrites of neurons: tending not to form branches”) was possibly coined by Enrique Ramón-Moliner and Walle Nauta in a 1966 article: see the quotation.
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