anorexia nervosa

anorexia nervosa

English

Etymology

From the scientific term anorexia nervosa (1957), from the symptom anorexia (“loss of appetite”), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite, desire”), and Latin nervōsa (“nervous”).

Noun

anorexia nervosa (uncountable)

1. An eating disorder characterized by self-starvation due to an irrational fear of gaining weight.

Translations

disorder

Azerbaijani: anoreksiya, nevrotik anoreksiya Basque: anorexia urduri Bulgarian: анорексия нервоза (anoreksija nervoza) Catalan: anorèxia nerviosa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 神經性厭食／神经性厌食 (shénjīngxìng yànshí), 神經性食慾缺乏／神经性食欲缺乏 (shénjīngxìng shíyù quēfá) Czech: anorexie (cs), mentální anorexie Danish: anoreksi (da) Dutch: anorexia nervosa (nl) Dzongkha: ཟས་བཅད་ནད་གཞི (zas bcad nad gzhi) Esperanto: anoreksio Estonian: anoreksia (et) Finnish: anoreksia (fi), laihuushäiriö French: anorexie mentale (fr) f Galician: anorexia (gl) f, anorexia nerviosa (gl) f Georgian: ნერვული ანორექსია (nervuli anoreksia) German: Anorexia nervosa, Anorexia mentalis, Magersucht (de) f Greek: νευρική ανορεξία (nevrikí anorexía) Hebrew: אנורקסיה נרבוזה‎ Hindi: एनोरेक्सिया नर्वोज़ा (enoreksiyā narvozā), क्षुधा अभाव (kṣudhā abhāv) Hungarian: anorexia (hu), anorexia nervosa (hu) Icelandic: lystarstol (is), anorexía Irish: anoireicse néarógach Italian: anoressia (it) f, anoressia nervosa f Japanese: 拒食症 (ja) (きょしょくしょう, kyoshokushō) Korean: 신경성 식욕부진증 (sin'gyeongseong sigyokbujinjeung) Latvian: anoreksija Lithuanian: anoreksija, nervinė anoreksija Norwegian: anoreksi Persian: بی‌اشتهایی عصبی‎ Polish: anoreksja (pl), jadłowstręt psychiczny Portuguese: anorexia nervosa (pt) f Romanian: anorexie nervoasă, anorexie mintală (ro) f Russian: аноре́ксия (ru) f (anoréksija), нервная анорекси́я (nervnaja anoreksíja) Scottish Gaelic: fuath-bìdh Serbo-Croatian: anoreksija (sh) Slovak: anorexia (sk), mentálna anorexia Spanish: anorexia (es) f, anorexia nerviosa f, anorexia mental f Swedish: anorexi (sv) Thai: โรคเบื่ออาหารเหตุจิตใจ Turkish: anoreksiya nervoza Ukrainian: аноре́ксія (anoréksija) Welsh: anorecsia nerfosa

See also

• anorexic
• bulimia
• EDNOS
• binge eating disorder
• orthorexia
• bigorexia
• manorexia
• preanorexic
• pro-ana

Further reading

• anorexia nervosa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Noun

anorexia nervosa

1. (pathology) anorexia nervosa (serious eating disorder)

Declension

Inflection of anorexia nervosa (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		anorexia nervosa	—
genitive		anorexia nervosan	—
partitive		anorexia nervosaa	—
illative		anorexia nervosaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		anorexia nervosa	—
accusative	nom.	anorexia nervosa	—
	gen.	anorexia nervosan
genitive		anorexia nervosan	—
partitive		anorexia nervosaa	—
inessive		anorexia nervosassa	—
elative		anorexia nervosasta	—
illative		anorexia nervosaan	—
adessive		anorexia nervosalla	—
ablative		anorexia nervosalta	—
allative		anorexia nervosalle	—
essive		anorexia nervosana	—
translative		anorexia nervosaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		anorexia nervosatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of anorexia nervosa (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	anorexia nervosani	anorexia nervosamme
2nd person	anorexia nervosasi	anorexia nervosanne
3rd person	anorexia nervosansa

Synonyms

• anoreksia (colloquial)
• laihuushäiriö (rare)

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Portuguese

Noun

anorexia nervosa f (uncountable)

1. anorexia nervosa (disorder characterised by self-starvation)