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Definition of Anorexia
1. Noun. A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite.
Specialized synonyms: Anorexia Nervosa
Derivative terms: Anorectic, Anorectic, Anorexic
Definition of Anorexia
1. n. Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.
Definition of Anorexia
1. Noun. Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease. ¹
2. Noun. anorexia nervosa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anorexia
1. loss of appetite [n -S]
Medical Definition of Anorexia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anorexia
Literary usage of Anorexia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Pediatric Society by American Pediatric Society (1908)
"The condition may be defined as one of anorexia, in neuropathic girls and ...
The anorexia may be complete or incomplete in that the patient takes no food ..."
2. Diseases of the stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1903)
"While anorexia is met with in almost all organic as well as functional ...
The cause of this primary anorexia may be either a depressed condition of the ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1892)
"anorexia Nervosa.—Writing on the subject of anorexia nervosa, ... Dr. Goodhart
insists that anorexia nervosa is one of the commonest of diseases. ..."
4. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1921)
"Nervous anorexia.—Nervous anorexia is a well-known neurosis occurring in people
who have ... Whatever the cause, the condition is one of absolute anorexia; ..."
5. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"anorexia. Ocim. a., gastralgia. Eructation with nausea, p. Ocim. ... Ocim. sanct.
sum., gastralgia, when fasting. Olib. hid., anorexia, o. ..."
6. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"Nervous anorexia (anorexia Nervosa) anorexia is diminution or loss of appetite,
with absence of the hunger sense, so that even aversion to food may be ..."
7. Diseases of the stomach: Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by John Conrad Hemmeter (1902)
"NERVOUS anorexia. By anorexia is meant an entire absence of appetite and loss of
the sensation of hunger. The superlative degree of this sensation is ..."
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