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Definition of Bulimia
1. Noun. A disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation.
2. Noun. Pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions).
Definition of Bulimia
1. n. A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.
Definition of Bulimia
1. Noun. the chronic eating disorder bulimia nervosa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bulimia
1. insatiable appetite [n -S] : BULIMIC, BULIMIAC [adj]
Medical Definition of Bulimia
1. An eating disorder which is characterised by self-induced vomiting after eating. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulimia
Literary usage of Bulimia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THOUGH bulimia is always mentioned in the proper connection, it rarely gets into
indexes, and does not seem to be very frequent in practice. ..."
2. Diseases of the stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1903)
"bulimia may appear periodically and last only a short time (a few days) or may
exist chronically and last for months or even years. ..."
3. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"... regarding hunger, appetite, or abnormal sensations within the stomach itself.
Among the abnormal sensations of appetite are bulimia (or canine hunger); ..."
4. Diseases of the stomach: Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment by John Conrad Hemmeter (1900)
"The treatment of bulimia when it is a secondary disease must have regard for ...
The following formula will be found useful in bulimia: R. Tinct. opii ..."
5. On slight ailments, and on treating disease by Lionel Smith Beale (1896)
"Greek, for no one can really learn Medicine without at the same time finding out
the meaning of a number of Greek words. The word bulimia I ..."
6. The Diseases of the Stomach by William Ward Van Valzah, James Douglas Nisbet (1898)
"I. bulimia. THE nervous affection of the stomach characterized by a sudden, ...
bulimia is most frequent between the ages of fifteen and forty, ..."
7. Diseases of the Stomach by Ismar Boas (1907)
"(A) bulimia. bulimia is partly an independent neurosis, partly a symptom of other
organic affections. Leo,2 to whom we are indebted for the best work on ..."
8. Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review edited by Eli Geddings (1833)
"Case of extraordinary Congenital bulimia.—Anne Denise was born in 1786. ...
During these paroxysms of bulimia the epigastrium was found to be tender, ..."
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