ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("anorexia nervosa" is a kind of...):

anorexia (a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite)

Domain category:

psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)