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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder typically characterized by?
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What is the eating disorder characterized by a false per ception of body appearabance?
anorexia nervosa
What eating disorder involves self-starvation and a fear of gaining weight?
An eating (and self image) disorder characterized by self-starvation is called, "Anorexia". A person who has anorexia is correctly said to be, "Anoretic', or more commonly, "Anorexic".
What does the word nervosa mean in anorexia nervosa?
The term nervosa in anorexia nervosa refers to a state of nervousness or loss of appetite leading to an eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by an extreme fear of gaining weight and distorted body image, leading to restricted food intake and excessive weight loss.
Is anorexia a mental disorder?
Anorexia nervosa is indeed a mental disorder.
What eating disorder is characterized by being at least 15 percent below ones normal weight?
Anorexia nervosa
How is anorexia different from nerovsa?
Their is not a difference between the two things. Anorexia Nervosa is the name of the actual eating disorder. The other eating disorder is Bulimia Nervosa, and it is different from Anorexia Nervosa.
What eating disorder is characterized by being at least 15 percent below one's normal body weight?
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervous is characterized by self-starvation and excessive loss?
Yes, that is roughly correct. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive exercise done in order to lose weight.
When was Anorexia nervosa classified?
Anorexia nervosa was not officially classified as a psychiatric disorder until the third edition of DSM in 1980
What is the difference between anorexia and nervosa?
There is none.
What disorder has the same symptoms as starvation?
Anorexia nervosa.
Is it true that the eating disoder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss is called bulimia nervosa?
No, that eating disorder would be anorexia nervose.
