obsessive-compulsive Meaning of "obsessive-compulsive"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) a person with obsessive-compulsive characteristics
  2. (adj) characterized by obsessions and compulsions

Usage(s):

  1. The swimmer's approach to training is a touch obsessive-compulsive.
  2. In another trial Rezai and colleagues at Brown University implanted DBS electrodes in 10 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  3. Grant theorizes that trichotillomania may be a kind of grooming irregularity that falls into the obsessive-compulsive family of disorders.

Quotes

  1. "I'm slightly obsessive-compulsive about what I eat, more than I should be," Underwood told Glamour magazine.
    on Dec 11, 2007 By: Carrie Underwood Source: China Daily

  2. "My character is young and confident and a little quirky," Wahlberg said Tuesday afternoon before a session at the TV critics press tour for his upcoming A&E movie "Kings of South Beach." "He's got some obsessive-compulsive things. He's sort...
    on Jan 10, 2007 By: Donnie Wahlberg Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

  3. "The genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental illnesses are likely to be very complex -- and very difficult to study in humans," said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National...
    on Oct 5, 2007 By: Francis Collins Source: Los Angeles Times

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