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Descriptor English: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Descriptor Spanish: Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo
Descriptor trastorno obsesivo compulsivo
Entry term(s) neurosis obsesiva compulsiva
personalidad anancástica
Scope note: Trastorno de ansiedad caracterizado por obsesiones o compulsiones persistentes y recurrentes. Las obsesiones son ideas, pensamientos o imágenes intrusivas que se experimentan como carentes de sentido o repugnantes. Las compulsiones son comportamientos repetitivos, aparentemente con una finalidad, que el individuo suele identificar como carentes de sentido y de los que no se deriva ningún placer aunque pueden mejorar la tensión.
Descriptor Portuguese: Transtorno Obsessivo-Compulsivo
Descriptor French: Trouble obsessionnel compulsif
Entry term(s): Anankastic Personalities
Anankastic Personality
Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive
Neuroses, Obsessive-Compulsive
Neurosis, Obsessive Compulsive
Neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses
Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis
Personalities, Anankastic
Personality, Anankastic
Tree number(s): F03.080.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009771
Scope note: An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
Annotation: COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER is also available
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: 81; was NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80; OBSESSION was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-78
Online Note: use OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER to search NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1966-80 & OBSESSION 1966-78
History Note: 81; was NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80; OBSESSION was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-78
Entry Version: OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DIS
DeCS ID: 9956
Unique ID: D009771
NLM Classification: WM 176
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Preferred
Concept UI M0015170
Scope note An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
Preferred term Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Entry term(s) Anankastic Personalities
Anankastic Personality
Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive
Neuroses, Obsessive-Compulsive
Neurosis, Obsessive Compulsive
Neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses
Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis
Personalities, Anankastic
Personality, Anankastic



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