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Anorexia nervosa is a highly complicated eating disorder in which on restrains from eating for long periods of time resulting in malnourishment, hospitalization, or death.
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What is the difference between anorexia and nervosa?
There is none.
Are anorexia nervosa conditions related only to the digestive system?
Anorexia can affect the digestive system. But it often affetcs the internal organs (especially the heart), the nervous system, and the skeletal system, too.
Involves eating large amount of food over a short time?
Binge eating disorder
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.
What does the red wristband mean?
It's a symbol within an anorexia community where members show there support for anorexia with a red wristband.
Is there any connection between anorexia and the endorcrine system?
Yes. Though anorexia (anorexia nervosa) is regarded as a mental health issue and usually is associated with the nervous system pathologies, there are many affects of anorexia on the endocrine system, mostly because most hormones require protein for their production. Also, the metabolic processes in the body are put under great stress because they do not have enough nutrients to perform properly. This can become evident when a woman that has anorexia stops menstruating.
Who suffers from Anorexic?
Anorexic is the noun used to describe someone with anorexia nervosa. And anyone can have it. Anyone suffering from anxiety, delusions, abuse, or trauma is subject to this nasty mind disease. Anorexia is simply the medical term for loss of appetite, and isn't a disease but a symptom to be taken into account where other health issues are concerned. Anorexia doesn't mean aversion to food or refusal to eat, or any of the other symptoms we associate with the serious disease, Anorexia Nervosa. So if your doctor writes a note to another doctor saying you're suffering from anorexia, it simply means you've lost your appetite and not that you've Anorexia Nervosa or its associated conditions, which sometimes have no apparent - or traceable - trigger at all. A person suffering from Anorexia Nervosa needs prompt and specific support and treatment by professionals, as do sufferers of any nervous disease.
How many people are exposed to anorexia every year and how many die and how many live?
Anorexia is not a contagious disease, exposure doesn't mean you get it. Anorexia is a mental condition, where the individual sees themselves as too fat, even when they are emaciated.
What has the author Walter Langdon-Brown written?
Walter Langdon-Brown has written: 'The practitioner's encyclopaedia of medical treatment' 'Chapters of Cambridge medical history' 'The sympathetic nervous system in disease' -- subject(s): Sympathetic nervous system, Nervous system, Diseases 'Anorexia nervosa' -- subject(s): Anorexia nervosa 'From witchcraft to chemotherapy' -- subject(s): Chemotherapy, Therapeutics, Witchcraft 'Some chapters in Cambridge medical history' -- subject(s): Cambridge, Cambridge. University. Medical school
What does the nervous system and organs are not centralized mean?
Not connected to our nervous system
What was the old meaning of the word 'anorexia'?
I suppose you mean the literal meaning of anorexia? Today's culture defines anorexia as a disease in which someone deliberately starves themselves. The actual meaning of anorexia though is "without appetite." When attempting to form a diagnosis, a doctor might describe a patient as suffering from anorexia but that only means that they have no appetite. They aren't trying to deliberately starve to achieve a thinner body.
What is the scientific name for Anorexia?
The scientific name for anorexia nervosa is Anorexia nervosa.
