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androphobia (medicine)


androphobia
<psychology> Morbid fear of men, or of the male sex, resulting in avoidance of situations where men are present.

Origin: andro-+ G. Phobos, fear


tetrachord (iou)



tetrachord noun. E17.
[In sense 1 from Greek tetrakhordon, formed as TETRA- + khorde string (see CORD noun1). In sense 2 from TETRA- + CHORD noun1.]
Music.
Hist. An ancient musical instrument with four strings. E17.
A scale, usu. of four notes, spanning an interval of a fourth; spec. in ancient Greek Music, each of the basic sets of four notes spanning a fourth which were combined in pairs or groups of three or four to form scales, adjacent sets having a note in common or being separated by a tone. Formerly also, the interval of a fourth. E17.