单词 | bulimia nervosa |
释义 | > as lemmasbulimia nervosa 1. Medicine. Originally: abnormally great appetite for or consumption of food, sometimes accompanied by other symptoms such as vomiting or fainting; (in early use also) †pica (obsolete); an instance of this. In later use (more fully bulimia nervosa): spec. an eating disorder characterized by regular, usually secretive bouts of binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting, purging, strict dieting, or extreme exercise, in association with persistent over-concern with body weight. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger bulimiaa1398 dog's hunger1592 dogged hunger1599 dog hunger1605 canine appetite1609 dog appetite1615 doggish appetitea1620 ox-hunger1623 polyphagia1693 adephagia1753 polyphagy1802 hyperphagia1941 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders anorexia nervosa1873 bulimarexia1976 bulimia nervosa1979 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xlv. 394 Bolismus is inmoderat and vnmesurable, as it were an houndis appetite.] a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxvii. 1169 Houndes haueþ contynual bolysme..and beþ somtyme so punysched wiþ hunger þat þay waxeþ rabbissh and woode. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 342 One-while the Boulime, then the Anorexie..rage with monstrous ryot. 1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold 734 He now thinks the chief cause of the Bulimia to consist in certain steams, that do peculiarly affect the stomack, which they gnaw and distend. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 301 A strange Boulimy..seized one Brian Careswell..who would knaw and eat both Linnen and Woollen. 1703 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd (ed. 2) 54 In a Bulimus the Causes are somewhat meeker, attended by a dullness or want of Spirits. 1767 Family Guide Health 117 When the Hunger is great, but not lasting, and attended with Faintings and a Failure of Breath, it is called a Boulimus, and is very dangerous. 1780 W. Beckford Biogr. Mem. Painters 19 Hemmeline, who had long been troubled with a boulomee, or voracious appetite. 1813 J. Blackall Observ. Nature & Cure Dropsies 233 That author..wholly omits to notice the boulimy or inordinate appetite, which forms so striking a feature of the diabetes mellitus. 1826 Lancet 27 May 267/1 The appetite may..be simply in excess, a state that has been called cynorexia, bulimia, &c. 1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 435/1 There are, however, a number of abnormal conditions which are classed under the general heading of bulimia, where an excessive appetite is present. 1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 39 119 Abnormalities of the need for food [are classified] as ‘anorexia’, ‘bulimia’, and ‘parorexia’. 1978 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 June 2688/1 A possible disorder (bulimia), which included self-induced vomiting as a feature, has been proposed by the American Psychiatric Association's Task Force on Nomenclature and Statistics. 1979 G. Russell in Psychol. Med. 9 429 (title) Bulimia nervosa: an ominous variant of anorexia nervosa. 1985 Woman's Own 22 June 10/2 She developed another slimmer's disease—bulimia nervosa. ‘For four months I stuffed myself with food then purged myself with laxatives.’ 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 May iia. 20/2 She struggled for many years with bulimia. < as lemmas |
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