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anorexia nervosa Definition


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anorexia nervosa
noun
    1. A psychological disorder, mainly affecting adolescent girls and young women, characterized by a significant decrease in body weight, deliberately induced by refusal to eat because of an obsessive desire to lose weight. See also bulimia nervosa.
Etymology: 19c.



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