loading...| Preferred Name |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C88411 |
| ALT_DEFINITION |
An anxiety disorder in which a person has intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that occur repeatedly, and in which he or she feels driven to perform certain behaviors over and over again. For example, a person may worry all the time about germs and so will wash his or her hands over and over again. Having an obsessive-compulsive disorder may cause a person to have trouble carrying out daily activities. |
| code |
C88411 |
| Concept_In_Subset |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C97150 http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C192842 |
| Contributing_Source |
NICHD Cellosaurus |
| DEFINITION |
A disorder characterized by the presence of persistent and recurrent irrational thoughts (obsessions), resulting in marked anxiety and repetitive excessive behaviors (compulsions) as a way to try to decrease that anxiety. |
| FULL_SYN |
OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| label |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| Preferred_Name |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| prefixIRI |
Thesaurus:C88411 |
| prefLabel |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| Semantic_Type |
Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction |
| UMLS_CUI |
C0028768 |
| subClassOf |