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scottobearsco·to·pho·bin (sk
t
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b
n)
n.
[Greek skotos, darkness + -phob(e) + -in.]
scoto·phobic adj.
t-fbn) n.
- A peptide isolated from the brain tissue of rats conditioned to fear darkness, claimed to have been used in its natural or synthesized form to induce a similar fear in untrained rats, thereby implying that a memory or a conditioned response can be chemically transferred.
[Greek skotos, darkness + -phob(e) + -in.]
sco
to·phobic adj. 
