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.
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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
loss of appetite especially when prolonged.
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/22601/obeterms.doc
lack of appetite or avoidance of food
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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 lack of appetite, usually caused by a disease. The horse will refuse to eat or will eat little, loose weight rapidly, act dull and lifeless, and will have an unhealthy physical appearance. If not treated, the horse will die
http://www.equinekingdom.com/data/horse_glossary/a_terms.htm
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/
A condition of having lost the appetite for food.
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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.
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a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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
