Crossword-Solution: ANOREXIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anorexia | n. | Alt. of Anorexy |
We have 11 clues for the answer “ANOREXIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Carpenter's challenge | 1 answer |
| Carpenter's disorder | 1 answer |
| Certain eating disorder | 1 answer |
| Lack of appetite | 1 answer |
| Loss of appetite, in medical parlance. | 1 answer |
| Problem for some models | 1 answer |
| Psychological disorder characterised by refusal to eat | 1 answer |
| __ nervosa | 1 answer |
| loss of appetite | 1 answer |
| psychological disorder characterized by fear of becoming fat and refusal to eat | 1 answer |
| Eating disorder | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANOREXIA (5)
Abstinence, or rather anorexia, is naturally associated with numerous diseases, particularly of the febrile type; but in all of these the patient is maintained by the use of nutrient enemata or by other means, and the abstinence is never complete.
His tongue was heavily coated, the bowels constipated, and there was marked anorexia, with considerable anemia.
Yet they presented every external sign of poverty of blood: pallor of skin and, more important still, of mucous membranes, cold extremities, anorexia, indigestion, dyspnoea on trifling exertion.
There was almost total anorexia, the amount of food consumed was absurdly small, and the necessary consequence of this inability to take food, combined with four years in bed with paralysis of the greater part of the body, and the habitual use of chloral to induce sleep, had reduced a naturally fine woman to a mere shadow.
Intense constipation, anorexia, and alternate states of dysuria, anuria, and polyuria followed, and before long her sister began to fail in health, owing to the incessant exactions to which she too willingly yielded.
Quotes with ANOREXIA (3)
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Or Kitty could have lost her life in a different way, lost it to the roller coaster of relapse and recovery, inpatient and outpatient, that eats up, on average, five to seven years. Or a lifetime: only half of all anorexics recovery in the end. The other half endure lives of dysfunction and despair. Friend…
I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: That could have been [me]. It wasn’t. It’s not.
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1951–2013).