† photophobyn.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: photo- comb. form, -phoby comb. form.
Etymology: < photo- comb. form + -phoby comb. form. Compare French photophobie (1812). Compare earlier photophobia n.
Medicine.
Obsolete.
rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > light
1858 R. G. Mayne (1860) Photophobia,..photophoby.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).