Definition: Anorexia
Absence or loss of appetite for food.
http://www.dana-farber.org/can/patient-instruction/html/glossary.html
Loss of appetite. This may have many causes including chemotherapy or radiation, depression about having cancer, or the cancer itself.
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lack of appetite, lack of desire or interest in food.
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Lack or loss of appetite that causes significant weight loss.
http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/bridge.html
A condition marked by a diminished apetite and aversion to food. Often results in physical signs of wasting.
http://pathology2.jhu.edu/PANCREAS/agloss.cfm
lack of appetite or avoidance of food
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/aboutlabs/cmb/InfectiousDiseasePathogenesisSection/mouseNecropsy/necropsyTerms.htm
Lack of appetite. Example: Since the diagnosis stomach cancer, Mr. D is having severe anorexia. He has lost about 20 pounds of weight over the last few months because of severe anorexia.
http://medicineworld.org/cancer/descriptions.html
An abnormal loss of the appetite for food. Anorexia can be caused by cancer, AIDS, a mental disorder (ie, anorexia nervosa), or other diseases.
http://www.seniormag.com/conditions/cancer/cancerglossary/a.htm
A medical term that signifies a loss of appetite. A person with anorexia nervosa, however, may not have any loss of appetite and often is preoccupied with food and eating in order to control his or her eating.
http://www.careinaction.com/resources_dict_a.html
A psychophysical condition in girls and young women, characterized by the prolonged inability or refusal to eat, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, extreme emanciation, amenorrehea and other biological changes.
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A disease which leads to a loss of appetite.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/bsp/hi/healthy_eating/jargon_guide/html/
An eating disorder involving loss of appetite for food, severe weight loss, and muscle wasting.
http://www.nutros.com/nsr-05zzz.html
the medical term for loss of appetite; this is different from anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder.
http://www.infertilityworkshop.com/articles/gettingstarted/glossary1.htm
Anorexia is a loss of the desire to eat. The term can be used medically as a symptom of many illnesses. It is more commonly used to describe a psychological disorder of self-induced starvation in an effort to become thin.
http://nutritionwerks.net/glossary.asp
No desire to eat.
http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/969/992308/glossary.htm
Anorexia (deriving from the Greek "α(ν)-" (a(n)-, a prefix that denotes absence) + "όρεξη'' (orexe) = appetite) is the decreased sensation of appetite. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia (symptom)
Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease; anorexia nervosa
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anorexia
Poor appetite.
http://stason.org/TULARC/health/articles/Bladder-Glossary.html
Lack or loss of appetite for food, accompanied by a noticeable weight loss if it is chronic.
http://www.addiction-rehabilitation.com/glossary.html
