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A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
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anorexia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "lack of appetite," Modern Latin, from Greek anorexia , from an- , privative prefix, "without" (see an- (1)) + orexis "appetite, desire," from oregein "to desire, stretch out" (cognate with Latin regere "to keep straight, guide, rule;" see regal ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN nervosa ▪ It seems to me that anorexia nervosa acts as a metaphor for all the problems of adolescence. ▪ Cultural predisposition Recognition that cultural pressures on women to diet contribute to anorexia nervosa has ...
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n. a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
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Usage examples of anorexia.
Harrison, who did not really meet her father until she was 20, takes the reader on a difficult journey into her loveless childhood, her bouts with anorexia and bulimia, and, eventually, the incestuous 4-year affair with her father.
What if Tessa had had a husband who failed to understand her anorexia and addiction to diet pills?
The mortal woman who had been slender to the point of anorexia ten years ago was now rounded and curved, gone from elegant to earthy.
There were two things I hoped for: that Nance would come out of the treatment program that lay ahead of her with some of the issues that triggered her anorexia put to rest.
Or mutant peptides present only under pathological behavioral conditions, such as the tripeptide found in anorexia nervosa.
There was no mention in the brief and almost insultingly dismissive report that anorexia would have achieved the same, this not being a problem commonly facing the poor of Marrakech in the late 1970s.
Do narcissists also suffer from eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa?
In later years I would think of Babette as probably anoretic, without knowing it — none of us knew what anorexia was, in 1957.
In later years I would think of Babette as probably anoretic, without knowing it—none of us knew what anorexia was, in 1957.
Cancers and aggravated anorexias were assessed and prioritized, the medical packages distributed accordingly.
There is a chance that bingeing and/or very strict dieting can develop into Bulimia or Anorexia.
Her subsequent depression and the indications that she ate very little during pregnancy may suggest that she suffered from a spell of anorexia, which also produces distension and might well have delayed the resumption of her periods until August, when she had to admit to herself that it had all been a terrible mistake.
After all, they'll reason, if he's doing this to himself as a punishment (they keep talking about psychological anorexia nervosa, apparently believing that if you feel guilty enough, you can speed up your metabolism until it's burning umpty-umpty calories a day), facing Lemke may provide exactly the sort of expiation he needs.
For the first time in my life I felt a temptation to declare that I had anorexia nervosa, instead of just being thin, so that she'd remember that there was one problem in the world that she didn't have.
A loss of self-respect and self-confidence was nearly always the seed from which anorexia nervosa grew, and Kathy was beginning to like herself again, a sure sign that she was on her way back from the brink.