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Phobic Disorders

"Phobic Disorders" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Phobic Disorders" by people in this website by year, and whether "Phobic Disorders" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 53 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2013
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