Similar words: anorexia, nervous, nervously, nervousness, nervous system, central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, dyslexia. Meaning: n. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated.
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(1) Allitt has suffered from anorexia nervosa since her arrest.
(2) A headline, about anorexia nervosa, starving yourself to death.
(3) Unlike anorexia nervosa, bulimia survives by disguise.
(4) She is receiving treatment for the weight-loss disorder anorexia nervosa at Rampton top security hospital.
(5) The current diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa reflect this evolutionary process but they have yet to achieve the final category.
(6) They must remember that anorexia nervosa is often a chronic illness.
(7) Even females suffering from anorexia nervosa tend to view their thin[Sentencedict], frail bodies as fat and unsightly.
(8) In dealing with anorexia nervosa we are dealing with metaphor - sometimes a startlingly apt form of metaphor.
(9) Examples include anorexia nervosa, personality disorders, and patients with resistant depression.
(10) Since her arrest she has reportedly suffered from anorexia nervosa.
(11) In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
(12) Anorexia Nervosa is a long term illness and regular follow-up appointments are necessary.
(13) The starvation effects of anorexia nervosa are very different to those found in conditions such as protein-calorie malnutrition or famine.
(14) It seems to me that anorexia nervosa acts as a metaphor for all the problems of adolescence.
(15) She had suffered from anorexia nervosa since the age of 19.
(16) There is enormous variation in psychopathology, family dysfunction, and medical complications associated with anorexia nervosa.
(17) Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
(18) Neuroendocrine and metabolic abnormalities Disturbances in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are the most consistent of the various endocrine abnormalities associated with anorexia nervosa.
(19) There are other, less common disturbances in childhood and adolescence, including childhood psychosis, the hyperkinetic syndrome and anorexia nervosa.
(20) This again is a symptomatic consequence of suffering from anorexia nervosa.
(21) There have been serious methodological limitations to much of the research implicating personality factors in anorexia nervosa.
(22) A strong concern about physical appearance seems to predate the development of anorexia nervosa.
(23) However, not all studies indicate a high rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder among anorexia nervosa patients.
(24) Other cultural risk factors, such as role conflicts experienced by women, may also be implicated in the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa.
(25) Personality disorder. - Data on the incidence and prevalence of personality disorders in anorexia nervosa are inconsistent.
(26) Moreover, 11% of 151 women presenting with obsessive-compulsive disorder had a history of anorexia nervosa.
(27) Other studies suggest that personality disorders are relatively uncommon in anorexia nervosa.
(28) Halmi etal, found a lifetime prevalence of 68% for major depression in a sample of severely ill anorexia nervosa patients.
(29) Cultural predisposition Recognition that cultural pressures on women to diet contribute to anorexia nervosa has had a fairly recent history.
(30) This appeal has been concerned with the treatment of anorexia nervosa.
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