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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.

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