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MeSH Heading: Xenophobia
Tree Number(s): F01.145.813.550.875; F01.145.813.629.875; F01.829.595.875
Unique ID: D065806
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D065806
Scope Note: Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
Entry Term(s): Fear of Strangers; Phobia, Strangers
Public MeSH Note: 2015
History Note: 2015
Date Established: 2015/01/01
Date of Entry: 2014/06/26
Revision Date: 2022/04/13

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

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Concept UI: M0590996
Scope Note: Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
Terms: Xenophobia Preferred Term
Term UI T854394
Date01/31/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Phobia, Strangers
Term UI T001111977
Date09/21/2021
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); Fear of Strangers
Term UI T001111976
Date09/21/2021
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023)

Xenophobia MeSH Descriptor Data 2023