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anorexia

anorexia

n. absence or loss of appetite for food or, less commonly, for other desires (e.g., sex), especially when chronic. It may be primarily a psychological disorder, as in anorexia nervosa, or it may have physiological causes, such as hypopituitarism. —anorectic or anorexic adj., n.

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