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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anorexia
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 had a fairly recent history.
▪ Examples include anorexia nervosa, personality disorders, and patients with resistant depression.
▪ The starvation effects of anorexia nervosa are very different to those found in conditions such as protein-calorie malnutrition or famine.
▪ A strong concern about physical appearance seems to predate the development of anorexia nervosa.
▪ Other studies suggest that personality disorders are relatively uncommon in anorexia nervosa.
▪ Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
■ VERB
suffer
▪ It is of course easier said than done for some one suffering from anorexia simply to follow this recovery plan.
▪ Allitt has suffered from anorexia nervosa since her arrest.
▪ Calista continues to deny she suffers from anorexia.
▪ She had suffered from anorexia nervosa since the age of 19.
▪ Since her arrest she has reportedly suffered from anorexia nervosa.
▪ Mostly she wrote about her feelings about her body and her recent acknowledgement to herself that she was suffering from anorexia.
▪ This again is a symptomatic consequence of suffering from anorexia nervosa.
▪ Even females suffering from anorexia nervosa tend to view their thin, frail bodies as fat and unsightly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
▪ I knew perfectly well that I had anorexia, but I did not see it as something pathological.
▪ If anorexia is about identity in general, it is also specifically and most importantly about autonomy.
▪ It is the first article I read on anorexia.
▪ Personality disorder. - Data on the incidence and prevalence of personality disorders in anorexia nervosa are inconsistent.
▪ The starvation effects of anorexia nervosa are very different to those found in conditions such as protein-calorie malnutrition or famine.
▪ This can easily cause anorexia and finally the demise of the stressed subject.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anorexia

Anorexia \An`o*rex"i*a\, Anorexy \An"o*rex`y\n. [Gr. ?; 'an priv. + ? desire, appetite, ? desire.] (Med.) Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.
--Coxe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anorexia

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) + abstract noun ending -ia. In current use, often short for anorexia nervosa.

Wiktionary
anorexia

n. 1 Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease. 2 anorexia nervosa.

WordNet
anorexia

n. a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite

Wikipedia
Anorexia (symptom)

Anorexia is the decreased sensation of appetite. While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a decreased appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical condition or pose a significant risk.

For example, anorexia of infection is part of the acute phase response (APR) to infection. The APR can be triggered by lipopolysaccharides and peptidoglycans from bacterial cell walls, bacterial DNA, double-stranded viral RNA, and viral glycoproteins, which can trigger production of a variety of proinflammatory cytokines. These can have an indirect effect on appetite by a number of means, including peripheral afferents from their sites of production in the body, by enhancing production of leptin from fat stores. Inflammatory cytokines can also signal to the central nervous system more directly by specialized transport mechanisms through the blood–brain barrier, via circumventricular organs (which are outside the barrier), or by triggering production of eicosanoids in the endothelial cells of the brain vasculature. Ultimately the control of appetite by this mechanism is thought to be mediated by the same factors normally controlling appetite, such as neurotransmitters ( serotonin, dopamine, histamine, norepinephrine, corticotropin releasing factor, neuropeptide Y, and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone).

Anorexia (disambiguation)

Anorexia may refer to:

Anorexia (album)

Anorexia is an album by the band Showbread. It was released on May 13, 2008 simultaneously with its companion album Nervosa . Anorexia is the first of a two-CD collection entitled Anorexia Nervosa, which is an accompaniment to the short story Anorexia Nervosa which comes pacakged with the records. The album acts as a soundtrack to a read-along story book that features a chapter for each track. As the reader follows the story, the album reacts to what happens within the text. Taking a drastic new direction from their second album Age of Reptiles, which featured a more straightforward alternative rock sound, the band took "Anorexia" in a much darker, Industrial rock tone.

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.