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ANOREXIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anorexia" is a kind of...):
eating disorder (a disorder of the normal eating routine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anorexia"):
anorexia nervosa ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated)
Derivation:
anorectic (causing loss of appetite)
anorectic; anorexic (suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin)
Context examples:
Signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, anorexia, jaundice, pruritus, nausea and vomiting, and weight loss.
(Extrahepatic Bile Duct Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A questionnaire used to assess general aspects of quality of life related to anorexia and cachexia.
(FAACT Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) may form part of the mechanisms involved in anorexia and other similar disorders, particularly if associations arise between food and discomfort, or even with negative emotions.
(Researchers identify area of the amygdala involved in taste aversion, University of Granada)
It is also being studied in the treatment of anorexia and cachexia in patients with cancer or other conditions.
(Megace, NCI Dictionary)
