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Risk-Taking

Medical Definition:	Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her.
Guide Notes:	no qualif
Also Called:	Risk Behavior
Previously Indexed:	Gambling (1969-1974)

Risk-Taking Categories.

Gambling - An activity distinguished primarily by an element of risk in trying to obtain a desired goal, e.g., playing a game of chance for money.

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