anorexia nervosa
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]anorexia nervosa (uncountable)
- An eating disorder characterized by self-starvation due to an irrational fear of gaining weight.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]disorder
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- anorexia nervosa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin anorexia nervosa.
Noun
[edit]anorexia nervosa
- (pathology) anorexia nervosa (serious eating disorder)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of anorexia nervosa (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | |
abessive | anorexia nervosatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- anoreksia (colloquial)
- laihuushäiriö (rare)
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]anorexia nervosa f (uncountable)
- anorexia nervosa (disorder characterised by self-starvation)
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