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appestat

appestat

n. a hypothetical area in the brain believed to regulate appetite and food intake. Although parts of the hypothalamus (see lateral hypothalamus; ventromedial nucleus) and brainstem (see solitary nucleus) have been shown definitively to be involved in appetite and food intake, the idea of a single appestat is probably overly simplistic.

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