agoraphobia
phobic disorder involving the specific anxiety about being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or embarrassing or where help may be unavailable
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Summary
agoraphobia is a class of disease[1]. agoraphobia ranks in the top 0.51% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,255 views/month, #10 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: phobia[3], disease[4]
- Topic's main category: Category:Agoraphobia[5]
- Possible treatment: psychotherapy[6]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[7], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34362[12]
- Different from: demophobia[13]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[14], clinical psychology[15]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: alprazolam[16]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_593[17], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:593[18], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000756[19]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[20]
Why It Matters
agoraphobia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] agoraphobia is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]