SUICIDAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suicidal mean? 

• SUICIDAL (adjective)
  The adjective SUICIDAL has 1 sense:

1. dangerous to yourself or your interests

  Familiarity information: SUICIDAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUICIDAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dangerous to yourself or your interests

Synonyms:

self-destructive; suicidal

Context example:

a kamikaze pilot

Similar:

dangerous; unsafe (involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm)

Derivation:

suicide (the act of killing yourself)

 Context examples 

Panic disorder is also a risk factor for suicidal behavior.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)

The questionnaire contains 20 items across 4 domains; suicidal ideation (lifetime and past 6 months), intensity of ideation (lifetime and past 6 months), suicidal behavior and actual attempts.

(Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale Children's Baseline/Screening Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The questionnaire contains 20 items across 4 domains; suicidal ideation, intensity of ideation, suicidal behavior and actual attempts.

(Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale Children's Baseline Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The first three sections pertain to the patient's suicidal ideations and behaviors while the fourth section assess any actual suicide attempts.

(Columbia-Suicidality Severity Rating Scale Baseline Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The questionnaire contains 23 items across 4 domains; suicidal ideation, intensity of ideation, suicidal behavior and actual attempts.

(Columbia-Suicidality Severity Rating Scale Baseline/Screening Version Phase 1 Study 1/14/09 Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The questionnaire contains 24 items across 4 domains; suicidal ideation, intensity of ideation, suicidal behavior and actual attempts.

(Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale Already Enrolled Subjects Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The questionnaire contains 19 items across 4 domains; suicidal ideation, intensity of ideation, suicidal behavior and actual attempts.

(Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale Children's Since Last Visit Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

People who presented with suicidal ideation had suicide rates 31.4 times higher than those of demographically similar Californians in the year after discharge.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

People with a higher genetic likelihood of autism are more likely to report higher childhood maltreatment, self-harm and suicidal thoughts according to a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

(Genetic variants for autism linked to higher rates of self-harm and childhood maltreatment, University of Cambridge)

Genetically-modified neural stem cells (NSCs) transfected with the Escherichia coli (E. coli) suicidal gene cytosine deaminase (CD), with potential antineoplastic adjuvant activity.

(E. coli CD-expressing Genetically Modified Neural Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)