(1) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(2) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(3) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(4) Anorexia and weight loss are serious complications that adversely effect the prognosis of cancer patients.
(5) The paper is concerned with an examination of the families of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa and the role they play in rehabilitation and resocialization of patients.
(6) In the present paper, attention has been focused on the role of cytokines and the effects of the acute phase response on drug disposition in disease states (including the effect of anorexia on medicated feed intake and drug bioavailability).
(7) This adverse treatment side effect has been implicated in the anorexia of cancer and can compromise the quality of patients' lives.
(8) An 18 yr old previously well male Taiwanese was admitted with malaise, anorexia, and jaundice for two weeks.
(9) Continuous infusion of Rg1 attenuated anorexia, increased water intake, and decreased ambulation, that were produced by elevation of environmental temperature from 21 degrees C to 30 degrees C. Consequently, rats maintained body weight and rectal temperature unchanged.
(10) hypodipsia, anorexia, visual disturbance, altered renal and hepatic function, depression, impaired basoreceptor response and multiple medications.
(11) In those studies the doses of lead have been of such magnitude that lead-induced anorexia resulting in growth retardation has contributed to the extent of the injury (Sundström et al.
(12) This case is also contrasted with previous accounts of diabetic adolescents who developed anorexia; however, it is noted that no other reports exist of cases of anorexia developing in adult insulin-dependent diabetic patients.
(13) In the conclusion of the review the author presents his own experience with the organization of a MAB (mental anorexia--bulimia club) founded in 1989 at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague, attached to the Unit of specialized care of patients with psychogenic eating disorders.
(14) An investigation was carried out in 1986 of 41 patients, 39 female and 2 male, who had been treated for anorexia nervosa in a psychiatric ward at a general hospital between 1958 and 1980.
(15) preceding weight loss (n = 11), was characterized by less 'anorexia-specific' psychological traits and more weight loss before admission and a more marked (= pathological) FSH responsiveness to GnRH stimulation.
(16) By means of a single case study the origin and development of anorexia nervosa in the second generation is described.
(17) Therefore, even given the existence of concordant cases, without inquiring precisely into the quality or degree of anorexia nervosa, it is not possible to conclude that hereditary factors play a determining role in the etiology of anorexia nervosa.
(18) Reduced caloric intake, a hallmark of both disorders, is manifested by self-induced starvation in anorexia and by binge eating and gastrointestinal purging in bulimia.
(19) Varied clinical observations of the presence of either hunger or anorexia during intragastric or intravenous alimentation have led to the current experiments.
(20) Except for some short or oblique references, the first explicit clinical description of a case of anorexia nervosa by an American author (James Hendrie Lloyd) did not appear until 1893.
Bulimia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Bulimy
Example Sentences:
(1) In the conclusion of the review the author presents his own experience with the organization of a MAB (mental anorexia--bulimia club) founded in 1989 at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague, attached to the Unit of specialized care of patients with psychogenic eating disorders.
(2) Reduced caloric intake, a hallmark of both disorders, is manifested by self-induced starvation in anorexia and by binge eating and gastrointestinal purging in bulimia.
(3) Subjects with diabetes scored lower, or did not differ significantly, from nondiabetic control subjects on measures of oral control and bulimia.
(4) Detailed clinical and psychological experimental study of 103 schizophrenia patients with anorexia nervosa revealed its most characteristic correlations with a specific variant of the pathology of drive--bulimia bouts and induced vomiting.
(5) Nonetheless, we believe that our data provide compelling evidence that the disturbed eating behavior characteristic of bulimia nervosa can be profitably studied in the laboratory.
(6) Cerebrospinal fluid neurotransmitter metabolite levels were studied to assess whether measures of central serotonin, dopamine, or norepinephrine function are associated with severity of abnormal eating patterns in patients with bulimia nervosa.
(7) To determine the natural history of delayed gastric emptying of solid foods in anorexia nervosa (AN), gastric emptying was assessed by scintigraphy in 20 consecutive inpatients; eight had restrictive AN, ten had both AN and bulimia nervosa (BN), and two BN alone.
(8) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(9) The results of a small study using fluoxetine in the treatment of bulimia nervosa are presented.
(10) Hidden cases of bulimia nervosa or partial syndromes are relatively common in general practice.
(11) The purpose of this study is to show that the appetite disorder bulimia is present in high school females.
(12) At the time last seen in follow-up, 19 (95%) of the subjects had experienced at least a partial improvement in their bulimia, and 10 (50%) had experienced a complete remission of bulimic symptoms.
(13) About 50% of patients with bulimia nervosa have been anorexic before.
(14) Notably, young and late onset patients had similar durations of illness prior to presentation, and similar proportions had bulimia and defensive vomiting.
(15) In spite of increasing specificity in diagnosis and a growing appreciation of the neuroendocrinologic and physiologic changes that accompany and perpetuate anorexia and bulimia, a clear understanding of these disorders has not been established.
(16) Preliminary results are reported on the efficacy of a 4-month group (n = 8) therapy compared with waiting-list controls (n = 9) in women with DSM-III bulimia.
(17) General practitioners using DSM-III criteria have studied the incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a large (N = 151,781) representative sample of the Dutch population.
(18) Bulimia and bulimarexia are more problematic in the 18-22 age group than is anorexia, with its earlier onset.
(19) In this study, zinc status was evaluated in 62 patients with bulimia and 24 patients with anorexia nervosa.
(20) The EDE is a semistructured interview which has been developed as a measure of the specific psychopathology of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.