National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 21, 2019
Preferred Name

Phobia

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C35420

ALT_DEFINITION

Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable.

anxiety disorder characterized by intense, unrealistic, persistent fear and avoidance of an object, activity, or situation.

An extreme, irrational, fear of something that may cause a person to panic. Examples of common phobias include fear of spiders, flying in an airplane, elevators, heights, enclosed rooms, crowded public places, and embarrassing oneself in front of other people.

code

C35420

DEFINITION

An anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, irrational fear of an object, activity, or situation. The individual seeks to avoid the object, activity, or situation. In adults, the individual recognizes that the fear is excessive or unreasonable.

label

Phobia

Legacy_Concept_Name

Phobia

Preferred_Name

Phobia

prefixIRI

C35420

prefLabel

Phobia

Semantic_Type

Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction

UMLS_CUI

C0349231

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C2878

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