Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- loss of appetite and inability to eat.
- Psychiatry. anorexia nervosa.
noun
- loss of appetite
- Also called: anorexia nervosa (nɜːˈvəʊsə) a disorder characterized by fear of becoming fat and refusal of food, leading to debility and even death
1590s, “lack of appetite,” Modern Latin, from Greek anorexia, from an-, privative prefix, “without” (see an- (1)) + orexis “appetite, desire,” from oregein “to desire, stretch out” (cognate with Latin regere “to keep straight, guide, rule;” see regal). In current use, often short for anorexia nervosa.
n.
- Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
- Anorexia nervosa.
A short name for anorexia nervosa.