Key facts
- Specialty
- Gastroenterology , family medicine , internal medicine
- Symptoms
- Not wanting to eat, no hunger, dizziness, weakness
- Causes
- Achy stomach , gastroparesis , food poisoning
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
43,927 papers- Medical complications in anorexia and bulimia nervosa.Medicina clinica · 2024
- Anorexia.Journal of palliative care · 1994
- Anorexia and the Cancer Patient.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice · 2019
- Anorexia of Aging.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2015
- [Anorexia].Rivista dell'infermiere · 1987
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- eating disorder
- Image
- Symptoms-lost-appetite.jpg
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- different from
- anorexia nervosa
- ICPC 2 ID
- T03
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- megestrol
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000309
- Commons category
- Anorexia (symptom)
- health specialty
- psychiatry
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C2875
- facet of
- women's health
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Anorexia is a medical term for a loss of appetite. While the term outside of the scientific literature is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a loss of appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical condition or pose a significant risk.
Anorexia in this usage is a symptom, not a diagnosis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “anorexia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.