anorexigenicadj.
Pharmacol.
= anorectic adj. 2.
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anorexigenic1948
anorexiant1957
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1948 Ann. Internal Med. XXIX. 510 We chose to decrease the desire for food by administering anorexigenic compounds of a type similar to ‘Benzedrine’.
1961 L. C. Martin Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 3) ii. 55 On general principles anorexigenic drugs should not be given [to obese children].
1978 Acta Endocrinologica LXXXIX. 207 The food refusal peptide of human origin suggests itself as a biological anorexigenic agent.
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