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Anorexia nervosa

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An eating disorder characterized by self-starvation due to an irrational fear of gaining weight. uncountable
  2. 2
    (psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated wordnet

Etymology

From the scientific term anorexia nervosa (1957), from the symptom anorexia (“loss of appetite”), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite, desire”), and Latin nervōsa (“nervous”).

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