NOUN
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated
How To Use anorexia nervosa In A Sentence
- Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa, are characterised by morbid preoccupation with weight and shape and manifest through distorted or chaotic eating behaviour.
- Currently, 30 percent of Americans are obese, compared with the 4 percent who meet criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating disorder.
- The guidance on eating disorders advocates a holistic approach in caring for people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and less common eating disorders such as binge eating.
- Personality disorder. - Data on the incidence and prevalence of personality disorders in anorexia nervosa are inconsistent.
- Although 90% of people with anorexia are women, anorexia nervosa is also found in men, all ages, in all social and almost all cultural groups.
- This practical manual offers a step-by-step guide to the treatment of anorexia nervosa in adolescents.
- It has recently been argued that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is no longer bound to specific Western localities.
- The principal eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and nonspecified eating disorder.
- Bone density measurements at the hip and femoral neck were also significantly lower in the anorexia nervosa group.
- Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
