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Descriptor English: Obsessive Behavior
Descriptor Spanish: Conducta Obsesiva
Descriptor conducta obsesiva
Entry term(s) ideas obsesivas
obsesiones
Scope note: Ideas o impulsos involuntarios y persistentes que pueden considerarse normales mientras no interfieran con los procesos mentales o el equilibrio emocional.
Descriptor Portuguese: Comportamento Obsessivo
Descriptor French: Comportement obsessionnel
Entry term(s): Behavior, Obsessive
Behaviors, Obsessive
Obsession
Obsessions
Obsessive Behaviors
Tree number(s): F01.145.126.950
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009770
Scope note: Persistent, unwanted idea or impulse which is considered normal when it does not markedly interfere with mental processes or emotional adjustment.
Annotation: use Cat F3 qualif
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR 1975-90; OBSESSION was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-78
Online Note: use COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR to search OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR 1968-74; use OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR to search OBSESSION 1968-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR 1975-90; OBSESSION was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-78
DeCS ID: 9955
Unique ID: D009770
NLM Classification: WM 176
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2002/07/02
Obsessive Behavior - Preferred
Concept UI M0015168
Scope note Persistent, unwanted idea or impulse which is considered normal when it does not markedly interfere with mental processes or emotional adjustment.
Preferred term Obsessive Behavior
Entry term(s) Behavior, Obsessive
Behaviors, Obsessive
Obsessive Behaviors
Obsessions - Narrower
Concept UI M0015169
Preferred term Obsessions
Entry term(s) Obsession



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