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compulsion

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-001970

An uncontrollable urge to say or do something without an obvious reason. A person may repeat a behavior, such as hand-washing, over and over.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-001970
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-001970",
  "term": "compulsion",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An uncontrollable urge to say or do something without an obvious reason. A person may repeat a behavior, such as hand-washing, over and over.",
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/compulsion/"
}

Record 5,176 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.