Skip to content

Cancer Terminology

  • About
  • Terminology
  • Genetic Terminology
  • Drug Terminology
Cancer Terminology

Single Biggest Cancer Dictionary in the World

What is

compulsion

?

Press
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpəlʃən/

compulsion

Definition

An uncontrollable urge to say or do something without an obvious reason. A person may repeat a behavior, such as hand-washing, over and over.

Explore Cancer Terminology

Find more

cardiac

clarithromycin

Oncovin

mustine

erythroid dysplasia

Muir-Torre syndrome

Loqtorzi

R-ICE regimen

Explore Cancer Drug Terminology

find more

Corynebacterium granulosum P40

EGFRt/19-28z/IL-12 CAR T lymphocytes

otlertuzumab

18F-labeled mini-PEG spacered RGD dimer

allogeneic CD19CAR-CD28-CD3-zeta-expressing T lymphocytes

FOLFIRI regimen

autologous PD1-inhibiting anti-CD19 4-1BB CAR T cells

autologous gamma delta T-cell receptor-expressing T cells TEG002

Explore Genetic Cancer Terminology

find more

linkage analysis

next-generation sequencing

genetic heterogeneity

uninformative result

aneuploidy

unclassified variant

variable expressivity

unaffected individual

  • About
  • Terminology
  • Genetic Terminology
  • Drug Terminology

© 2026 Cancer Terminology

  • About
  • Terminology
  • Genetic Terminology
  • Drug Terminology