Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
behavioral abnormality
[ bih-heyv-yer-al ab-nawr-mal-i-tee ]
Subclass of:
Behavioral Symptoms;
Child Behavior
Definitions related to abnormal behavior:
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(problem behavior) Troublesome or disruptive behavioral displays.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Conduct that is unusual for the individual.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(behavioral abnormality) An abnormality of mental functioning including various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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