Medical Subject Headings

Last uploaded: January 31, 2024
Preferred Name

Koro

Synonyms

Genital Retraction Syndromes

Definitions

A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the individual's sudden experience of depersonalization depicted by the belief that his penis is shrinking into his abdomen and that he will die when this occurs. Although generally classified as a culture-specific syndrome, koro may be no more than a variant of castration anxiety (ANXIETY, CASTRATION) as it has been described in non-Asian patients.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D016911

altLabel

Genital Retraction Syndromes

Koro Syndromes

Koro Syndrome

Syndrome, Genital Retraction

Genital Retraction Syndrome

Syndrome, Koro

AN

a depersonalization disorder; do not confuse with KURU, a neurological disorder; specify ethnic group if pertinent; check tag MALE

AQL

BL CF CI CL CO DG DH DI DT EC EH EN EP ET GE HI IM ME MI MO NU PA PC PP PS PX RH SU TH UR VI

cui

C0085429

DC

1

definition

A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the individual's sudden experience of depersonalization depicted by the belief that his penis is shrinking into his abdomen and that he will die when this occurs. Although generally classified as a culture-specific syndrome, koro may be no more than a variant of castration anxiety (ANXIETY, CASTRATION) as it has been described in non-Asian patients.

DX

19920101

HN

92

Inverse of AQ

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000097

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000178

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000175

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000628

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000276

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000134

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000139

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000266

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000378

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000517

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000469

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000150

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000821

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000191

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000473

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000145

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000382

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000451

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000453

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000534

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000503

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000188

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000235

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000201

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000209

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000208

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000601

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000000981

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000652

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000523

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000401

Machine permutation

92

MDA

19910530

MMR

20210630

MN

F01.470.132.150.500

notation

D016911

prefLabel

Koro

TERMUI

T001108309

T001093017

T050631

TH

NLM (1992)

NLM (2022)

tui

T048

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001009

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