belono-, belon-

An exaggerated or irrational fear of pins and needles or of anything that has a sharp ending: When Frank was a little child, he grabbed something from his mother's sewing basket and his hand was punctured with pins, and for the rest of life he has had belonephobia which resulted in abnormal behavior and anxieties about such objects.

1. Subjective retinoscopy by means of shadows and movements to determine refraction.
2. A subjective method of refraction consisting of the observation of the movement of a narrow bar across the pupil of the eye.