神しん経けい性せい無む食しょく欲よく症しょう

Related words

• 拒きょ食しょく症しょう

  拒食症 is a more common, lay term for anorexia, while 神経性無食欲症 is the formal medical term.

• 過か食しょく症しょう

  過食症 refers to bulimia nervosa, a different eating disorder involving binge eating and purging.

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Etymology

Compound of 神経 (nerve, nervous), 性 (nature, -ity), 無 (without), 食欲 (appetite), and 症 (disease, condition). A direct translation of the English medical term 'anorexia nervosa'.