Psychiatry and Psychology

Anxiety

Feelings or emotions of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Feelings or emotions of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS.

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Synonyms

8 entry terms
  • Angst
  • Anxiousness
  • Hypervigilance
  • Nervousness
  • Social Anxiety
  • Anxieties, Social
  • Anxiety, Social
  • Social Anxieties

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

human & animal; differentiate from ANXIETY DISORDERS, a psychiatric diagnosis

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  1. F01.470w.132w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Anxiety. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001007. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001007
  2. Anxiety. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety
  3. Anxiety. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154430