For Anorexia nervosa we have terms and definitions in 16 topics. The topics are Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Developmental Psychology, Dieting, Female Health, Fitness, Food and Health, Human Reproduction, Medical, Mental Health, Nutrition, Problem Teenagers, Science, Sex, Weight Loss, Women's Health and Womens Health.

Anorexia Nervosa (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)

A personality disorder manifested by extreme aversion to food, usually occurring in young women.

Anorexia Nervosa (Developmental Psychology)

An eating disorder, chiefly in young women, characterized by aversion to food and obsession with weight loss; manifested in self-induced starvation, excessive exercise, and so on.

Anorexia Nervosa (Dieting)

A psychophysiological disorder characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming obese and therefor a distorted self-image. This results in an unwillingness to eat leading to severe weight loss. It can also be accompanied by vomiting, excessive exercise and other physiological changes.

Anorexia Nervosa (Female Health)

A mental disorder involving a preoccupation with weight and thinness. An individual may lose excessive amounts of weight by avoiding food completely, basically starving themselves and/or exercising to excess.

Anorexia Nervosa (Fitness)

An eating disorder characterized by a distorted body image in which a person does not take in a sufficient amount of calories, eventually causing harm to the body, and sometimes death.

Anorexia Nervosa (Food and Health)

An eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a minimally normal weight for height and age. The condition includes weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight 15 percent below normal; an intense fear of weight gain or becoming fat, despite the individual's underweight status; a disturbance in the self-awareness of one's own body weight or shape; and in females, the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles that would otherwise be expected to occur.

Anorexia Nervosa (Human Reproduction)

Marked reduction in the intake of food, caused by psychogenic factors and leading to malnutrition and amenorrhea.

Anorexia Nervosa (Medical)

Self-induced starvation with at least 15 percent of original body weight lost. May be accompanied by amenorrhea, fat phobia, and a severe distortion of body image.

Anorexia Nervosa (Mental Health)

An eating disorder characterized by refusal or inability to maintain minimum normal weight for age and height combined with intense fear of gaining weight, denial of the seriousness of current low weight, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, and, in females, amenorrhea or failure to menstruate. Weight is typically 15% or more below normal, and it may decrease to life-threatening extremes. In the restricting subtype, the person does not engage regularly in binge eating. In the binge eating/purging, or bulimic, subtype, the person engages in recurrent episodes of binge eating or purging during the episode of anorexia nervosa. See also bulimia nervosa.

Anorexia Nervosa (Nutrition)

A symptom of a disturbance that causes loss of appetite for food and compulsive dieting.

Anorexia Nervosa (Problem Teenagers)

Anorexia is an eating disorder primarily in females that is characterized by the inability to consistently maintain adequate body weight, an intense fear of becoming obese, and an unrealistic, negative body image.

Anorexia Nervosa (Science)

A disorder that is characterized by a fear of weight gain leading to faulty eating patterns, malnutrition, and usually excessive weight loss

Anorexia Nervosa (Sex)

An eating disorder in which the individual engages in extreme behaviors to remain very thin.

Anorexia Nervosa (Weight Loss)

A dangerous psychological disorder dominated by a distorted body self-image. No matter how thin, they see themselves as obese. There is a very strong aversion to eating, so much that the victim may conceal uneaten food, fake weight-ins to conceal weight loss, induce vomiting or exercise excessively. Take suspicion of this condition seriously and consult a physician

Anorexia Nervosa (Women's Health)

An eating disorder caused by a person having a distorted body image and not consuming the appropriate calorie intake resulting in severe weight loss.

Anorexia Nervosa (Womens Health)

An eating disorder caused by a person having a distorted body image and not consuming the appropriate calorie intake resulting in severe weight loss.

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