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2. Noun. (zoology) The eating of many different types of food ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polyphagia

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Medical Definition of Polyphagia

1. Great hunger, a sign of diabetes. People with this great hunger often lose weight. Origin: Gr. Phagein = to eat (14 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyphagia

Literary usage of Polyphagia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1903)
"polyphagia. polyphagia denotes a condition in which excessive amounts of ... polyphagia is met with in the same conditions as bulimia, and especially in the ..."

2. Diseases of the Stomach, Intestines, and Pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"polyphagia polyphagia is the demand for large quantities of food before satiation occurs. The cases do not feel hungry until the food is digested. ..."

3. Pathological Physiology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Symptoms and Complications of Diabetes Emaciation and polyphagia Satisfactory explanations t-;in he »-¡von for certain complications of diabetes mellitus ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Symptoms and Complications of Diabetes Emaciation and polyphagia Satisfactory explanations can be given for certain complications of diabetes mellitus only. ..."

5. Diseases of the stomach and upper alimentary tract by Anthony Bassler (1922)
"Clinically different from bulimia and polyphagia, the appetite may not be increased and may even be diminished. Like the other symptoms of this group it is ..."

6. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Symptoms and Complications of Diabetes Emaciation and polyphagia Satisfactory explanations can be given for certain complications of diabetes mellitus only. ..."

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