bulimia nervosa
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- noun
- /bjuˈlɪmiə nərˈvoʊsə/
- Specialized
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bulimia nerviosa
- Treatment for bulimia nervosa typically includes therapy and nutritional guidance to address the underlying issues.
- bulimia nervosa patients
- bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder
- bulimia nervosa, binge
Examples
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Further, weight cycling (losing weight and then regaining it) is associated with the development of bulimia nervosa.
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Patients with anorexia nervosa are malnourished and severely underweight, whereas patients with bulimia nervosa are generally not malnourished and not underweight.
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Patients with bulimia nervosa should also be referred to specialist psychiatric care.
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However, patients with bulimia nervosa are typically not underweight and, therefore, are more likely to go unnoticed.
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In addition, antidepressants prescribed by psychiatrists have been shown to be an effective treatment for bulimia nervosa.
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Most studies conducted on such behavior focus primarily on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
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In patients with bulimia nervosa, bone mineral is only marginally decreased and fracture risk marginally increased.
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In this case, a daughter sought treatment from a therapist in 1989 for bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder involving binging and self-induced vomiting.
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Generally, an eating disorder manifests as one of four identifiable conditions: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and emotional overeating.
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Patients struggling with bulimia nervosa often engage in binge eating followed by purging to control their weight.
Synonyms
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An eating disorder of eating large amounts then trying to avoid weight gain by vomiting or fasting
A serious eating problem where people eat large amounts then make themselves throw up or fast to avoid weight gain
A pattern of eating where a person repeatedly eats a large amount then makes themselves vomit
A condition where a person eats a lot and then avoids food, often vomiting or fasting
Antonyms
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A serious eating disorder where a person eats very little and fears gaining weight
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is a clinical label composed transparently from 'bulimia' (an eating disorder with binge-and-purge episodes) and the Latin postpositive 'nervosa' that specifies the syndrome; the Latin element is technical but does not obscure the base meaning. Given knowledge of both constituents, the overall meaning (the specific eating disorder) is directly inferable and the construction is widely used cross-linguistically in medical nomenclature.
Etymology
Bulimia nervosa comes from old Greek words: bulimia means 'ox hunger', a very strong appetite, and nervosa means 'nervous', showing a mental or emotional cause. So the name pictures intense, often nervous-driven eating followed by purging or fasting to avoid weight gain.