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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Behavioral Symptoms > Self-Injurious Behavior > Self Mutilation
Wounds and Injuries > Self Mutilation

Preferred term

Self Mutilation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Autotomy Human
  • Autotomy Humans
  • Behavior, Self Mutilating
  • Mutilating Behavior, Self
  • Self Mutilating Behavior
  • Self Mutilating Behaviors

Note

  • SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR is also available

Scope note

  • The act of injuring one's own body to the extent of cutting off or permanently destroying a limb or other essential part of a body.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012652

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