phobia
anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of a concept, an object or a situation
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Summary
phobia is a class of disease[1]. phobia draws 4,215 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #310 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: anxiety disorder[3], fear[4], anxiety[5], neurosis[6]
- Commons category: Phobias[7]
- Opposite of: philia[8]
- ICPC 2 ID: P79[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Phobias[10]
- Possible treatment: psychotherapy[11]
- Has effect: fear[12]
- ICD-9-CM: 300.20[13]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C35420[14]
- Different from: non-medical phobia[15], anxiety[16]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[17], psychology[18]
- Has list: list of phobias[19]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_591[20], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:591[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[22], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
- WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/phobia[24]
- Handled, mitigated, or managed by: exposure therapy[25]
Why It Matters
phobia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] phobia is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]