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Abstract
An activity distinguished primarily by an element of risk in trying to obtain a desired goal, e.g., playing a game of chance for money.
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6 entry terms
- Gamblings
- Gambling, Pathologic
- Gambling, Pathological
- Pathological Gambling
- Gamblings, Pathological
- Pathological Gamblings
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31 allowable subheadings
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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History Note
91(79)68; was see under RISK-TAKING 1979-90; was heading 1968-78
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Gambling. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005715. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005715
- Gambling. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling
- Gambling. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11416