| anorexia |
Lack of appetite. Example: Since the diagnosis stomach cancer, Mr. D is having severe anorexia. He has lost about 20 pounds of weight over the last few months because of severe anorexia.
Ãâó: medicineworld.org/cancer/descriptions.html
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| anorexia nervosa |
Self-induced starvation with at least 15 percent of original body weight lost. Victims also have amenorreah, fat phobia, and a severe distortion of body image.
Ãâó: www.hec.ohio-state.edu/bitf/eatgloss.htm
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| anorexia-cachexia s. |
a systemic response to conditions such as cancer or the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, resulting from a poorly understood relationship between anorexia and cachexia, manifested by malnutrition, weight loss, muscular weakness, acidosis, and toxemia. The anorexia may be caused by a severe metabolic disturbance that contributes to development of cachectic wasting, which in turn reinforces anorexia by release from the tumor of a humoral product that stimulates the satiety center in the hypothalamus.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| anorexiant |
anorectic (def. 2).
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| anorexia |
(Anorexia nervosa, mentalis). Psychogenic eating disorder with fear of being overweight, disturbed body image, denial. Prevalent ages 10 ?25yrs. Prevalence: 1% of all females, 0.08% of all males. Causes cachexia (extreme weight-loss), mortality 10% (see also Eating Disorders).
Ãâó: www.surgery.ch/en/default.asp
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