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obsessive-compulsive disorder
  1. a disorder in which a patient experiences persistent, unwanted thoughts that generate anxiety and lead him or her to perform some compulsive or ritualistic action in order to provide temporary relief from the anxiety
    Abbreviation: OCD
'obsessive-compulsive disorder' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
OCD - magical thinking

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