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Abstract
Disorders having the presence of physical symptoms that suggest a general medical condition but that are not fully explained by another medical condition, by the direct effects of a substance, or by another mental disorder. The MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. In contrast to FACTITIOUS DISORDERS and MALINGERING, the physical symptoms are not under voluntary control. (APA, DSM-V)
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11 entry terms
- Medically Unexplained Syndrome
- Medically Unexplained Syndromes
- Disorder, Somatoform
- Somatoform Disorder
- Syndrome, Medically Unexplained
- Unexplained Syndrome, Medically
- Briquet Syndrome
- Pain Disorder
- Somatization Disorder
- Somatization Disorders
- Syndrome, Briquet
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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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differentiate from FACTITIOUS DISORDERS and PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS
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WM 173.5
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Somatoform Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013001. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013001
- Somatoform Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_symptom_disorder
- Somatoform Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936549