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anorex'ia ner•vo'sa

Pronunciation: (nûr-vō'su), [key] Psychiatry.
an eating disorder primarily affecting adolescent girls and young women, characterized by pathological fear of becoming fat, distorted body image, excessive dieting, and emaciation. Cf. bulimia, bulimarexia.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

anorexia

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