orectic
- adjective
- /ɔːˈrɛktɪk/
- Specialized
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orectico
- The patient displayed an orectic response to the sight of food, indicating a strong desire to eat.
Examples
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Therapists often address orectic behaviors in patients struggling with eating disorders to help restore a healthy appetite.
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After the medication, her orectic urges returned, making her hungry for the first time in weeks.
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And though this is to credit him with an orectic state, it is not to credit him with an externally intelligible overarching desire; for we cannot understand the content of the orectic state from the envisaged external standpoint.
Academic text (1999) -
And though this is to credit him with an orectic state, it is not to credit him with an externally intelligible overarching desire; for we cannot understand the content of the orectic state from the envisaged external standpoint.
Academic text (1999)
Surface Forms
Morphology
orectic = orect + ic
The suffix '-ic' means 'relating to', but the root 'orect-' is a rare Greek combining form for 'desire' unfamiliar to average learners, so the meaning is not derivable from known English components.
Etymology
Orectic comes from an old Greek word orexis meaning 'appetite' or 'desire'. So to call something orectic is to say it is about appetite or strong wanting, often used in medicine or psychology.
