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ANXIETY DISORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anxiety disorder" is a kind of...):
disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anxiety disorder"):
anxiety reaction; GAD; generalized anxiety disorder (an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months)
obsessive-compulsive disorder (an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent and persistent thoughts and feelings and repetitive, ritualized behaviors)
panic disorder (an anxiety disorder characterized by unpredictable panic attacks; the attacks are usually severe but brief)
phobia; phobic disorder; phobic neurosis (an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations)
posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD (an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images)
Context examples:
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.
(Phobia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, unrealistic, persistent fear and avoidance of an object, activity, or situation.
(Phobia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder.
(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
An anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, irrational fear of an object, activity, or situation.
(Phobia, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.
(Paroxetine hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by unexpected panic attacks that last minutes or, rarely, hours.
(Panic Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder.
(Panic Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by unexpected, repeated episodes of intense fear.
(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)
Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the generalized anxiety disorder 7 item questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire GAD-7 Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
An anxiety disorder precipitated by an experience of intense fear or horror while exposed to a traumatic (especially life-threatening) event.
(Acute Stress Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
