(n.) One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second investigation examined the discriminant validity of the Forbidden Food Survey by comparing the responses of three groups: bulimic binge-purgers, bulimic binge-eaters, and normals.
(2) As predicted from the anxiety model of bulimia, binge-purgers consistently reported stronger negative emotional responses to these foods than did the other groups.
(3) "Vomiters and purgers", on the other hand, were more outgoing in respect to personality.
(4) The first group consisted of subjects who had become emaciated solely because of dieting, food refusal and excessive exercising ("dieters"); the second of those who had used additional means to bring about weight loss such, as habitual vomiting and the abuse of purgatives ("vomiters and purgers").
(5) The anorectic patients were divided into subgroups of 19 abstainers and 46 vomiters and purgers.
(6) In the third experiment, bulimic binge-purgers were compared on Forbidden Food Survey responses to obese and normal subjects.
(7) It was found that the vomiters ate significantly more yet weighed less: the purgers ate less but weighed significantly more.
(8) The results indicate that the purgers control their weight by overall dietary restraint, not by the pharmacological action of the laxatives.
(9) Caloric requirements for weight gain in subgroups of anorectic patients (anorectic restrictors, anorectic binge-purgers) and weight maintenance in subgroups of anorectic and bulimic patients (bulimics with and without a prior history of anorexia nervosa) were studied in a total of 36 patients.
(10) From Father Gary's garden gate you get a view of where the paedophile-purgers of the Paulsgrove estate got into their stride.
(11) This excludes the possibility that F liver protein is a major histocompatibility complex molecule, and in turn raises a question about the uniqueness of F and certain other proteins as purgers of self-reactivity among T but not B cells.
(12) A sample (N = 114) of adolescent female binge-purgers were among the respondents to a nationwide survey on body-image.
(13) Both male and female purgers felt guiltier after eating large amounts of food, counted calories more often, dieted more frequently, and exercised less than nonpurgers.
(14) In contrast, purging was relatively ineffective, for despite smaller energy intakes, all the purgers were above (mean = 114 per cent)--and some markedly above--their MPMW.
(15) Bulimics and purgers were heavier, had greater triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses, and reported higher rates of drunkenness, marijuana use, cigarette use, and greater levels of depressive symptomatology.
(16) Binge-purgers also considered themselves to be more poorly psychosocially adjusted, with a reported childhood history of appearance-related conflicts.
(17) Relative to female controls (N = 114) who were matched on age, height and weight, binge-purgers evaluated their physical appearance, fitness and health much less favourably.
(18) Regardless of actual weight, binge-purgers more often distorted their body size as heavier than did controls, displayed more anxious preoccupation about their weight and weight gain and reported much more frequent eating restraint to lose weight.
(19) Again, binge purgers were found to respond with stronger negative responses than obese and normals.