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MeSH Heading: Hypochondriasis
Tree Number(s): F03.875.450
Unique ID: D006998
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006998
Scope Note: Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. (APA, DSM-IV)
Entry Term(s): Hypochondriacal Neuroses; Neurosis, Hypochondriacal
NLM Classification #: WM 178
Online Note: use HYPOCHONDRIASIS to search HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES 1969-80
History Note: NEUROSIS, HYPOCHONDRIACAL was HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES see HYPOCHONDRIASIS 1979-80, was HYPOCHONDRIACAL NEUROSES see under HYPOCHONDRIASIS 1969-78
Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20

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cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

virology (VI)

Hypochondriasis MeSH Descriptor Data 2024