anorexia nervosa
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- noun
- /ˌænəˈrɛksiə nərˈvoʊsə/
- Specialized
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anorexia nerviosa
- Self-starvation by patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) is one of the most striking features of the disorder.
- anorexia nervosa and bulimia
- anorexia nervosa disorder
- anorexia nervosa patients
Those drugs have been used to some degree of success, although not much to treat things like anorexia nervosa.
- Those drugs have been used to some degree of success, although not much to treat things like anorexia nervosa.
- So I'm speaking specifically about a diagnosis, anorexia nervosa.
Examples
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I felt an enormous sense of responsibility because I had, of course, researched the various complications of anorexia nervosa.
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Some patients with anorexia nervosa often vigorously and compulsively engage in sports to promote weight loss.
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After a five-year battle with anorexia nervosa, my body had reached its breaking point.
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Although she had only had this disease for a few months, anorexia nervosa had an unusually strong grip on her.
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For patients with anorexia nervosa, monitoring bone mineral density may be recommended.
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Although anorexia nervosa does affect men, research shows that the disorder is overwhelmingly experienced by women.
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The main treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa is referral to specialist care for nutritional rehabilitation and psychological therapy.
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Eating disorders are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior and include mental illnesses such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
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The Eating Attitudes Test-26 (Garner, Olmstead, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982) examined symptoms commonly associated with anorexia nervosa.
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After struggling with anorexia nervosa for several years, she finally sought help from a therapist.
Synonyms
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3.7
A health condition where a person has unhealthy eating habits, like anorexia or bulimia
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7.9
A serious eating problem when a person does not eat and becomes very thin
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6.8
A condition where a person has unhealthy eating habits and worries about their body
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
The element 'anorexia' clearly signals an eating-related condition, while 'nervosa' is a postpositive Latin/medical qualifier that doesn't convey an everyday semantic contribution. The expression is a technical clinical term whose specific psychological features (fear of gaining weight, distorted body image, self-starvation) go beyond the literal meanings of the parts, so its sense is partially but not fully derivable.
Etymology
The medical name anorexia nervosa comes from old Greek and Latin words: anorexia means 'no appetite' and nervosa points to the nerves or mind. So the name describes the illness where people 'stop eating' because they are afraid of gaining weight and have a wrong idea about their body.