culture-bound syndrome

C43560
concept

A culture-bound syndrome is a pattern of symptoms and behaviors regarded as a recognizable illness within a specific culture or society, but not necessarily understood or classified as such outside that cultural context.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
culture-bound syndrome canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: culture-bound syndrome
Generated description
A culture-bound syndrome is a pattern of symptoms and behaviors regarded as a recognizable illness within a specific culture or society, but not necessarily understood or classified as such outside that cultural context.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
Stendhal syndrome