Concept cluster: Biology > Anorexia
n
(Internet, slang) Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).
n
A person suffering from anorexia nervosa; an anorexic.
n
Anorexia nervosa.
n
hypergymnasia
n
(historical) A supposedly miraculous lack of appetite among women of the Middle Ages, who would starve themselves as a form of religious asceticism.
n
An eating disorder characterized by self-starvation due to an irrational fear of gaining weight.
n
Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa.
adv
Pertaining to loss of appetite or anorexia.
adj
(medicine) Resembling autism.
n
The cycle of binge eating and self-induced vomiting or use of laxatives characteristic of bulimarexia.
n
An eating disorder that occurs when an individual has both anorexia and bulimia.
adj
Of, or relating to, bulimia nervosa.
n
The combination of bulimia and anorexia.
n
Utraquism
adj
Resembling or characteristic of dementia.
n
(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
adj
Having an eating disorder.
adj
(pharmacology) Causing nausea and vomiting.
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Having the qualities of a dusting powder.
n
(dialectal, humorous, often in the plural) A disease or ailment (of humans).
adj
Alternative form of euergetic [Relating to euergetism.]
n
(obsolete, medicine) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humours; humorism.
n
An extreme form of basophilia.
n
The inhibition of feeding produced by a novel environment; Novelty-Induced hypophagia. Commonly used as a measure of anxiety, particularly in rodents.
n
(pathology) A reduction in food intake
n
A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
n
(humorous, informal) Anorexia nervosa (or any similar eating disorder) when occurring in a male.
n
(informal) A male anorexic.
n
(medicine, formal) A disease.
n
Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc. among the indigenous peoples of the New World, linked to a change from traditional diet and exercise to a Western diet and a sedentary lifestyle.
n
(obsolete) The care and nursing of the sick.
n
(psychology) A fixation with healthy or righteous eating
n
fixation on righteous eating.
n
One who suffers from orthorexia
n
Synonym of pandemic
n
(European history) A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.
adj
Having or relating to the disease porrigo.
n
A movement that promotes anorexia nervosa as an acceptable lifestyle choice.
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A movement that promotes bulimia as an acceptable lifestyle choice.
n
(medicine, dated) The kindling of a disease into action; the procatarctic cause.
adj
Of, pertaining to or having sexual anorexia
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(pathology) A medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a symptom.
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(slang) A condition whose sufferers believe they are too pale and become obsessed with tanning.
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Photographs or other material intended to provide inspiration for anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice.
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Obsolete form of tonic. [A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.]
n
(medicine, archaic) shampoo (a kind of body massage)
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(neologism) Anorexia yearning in a nonanorexic individual.
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(derogatory, slang) One who does not have the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, but wishes to.

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