Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bulimia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bulimia \Bu*lim"i*a\, Bulimy \Bu"li*my\, n. [NL. bulimia, fr.
Gr. boylimi`a, lit., ox-hunger; boy^s ox + limo`s hunger: cf.
F. boulimie.] (Med.)
A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable
appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bulimia
n 1: a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating
binges and then feel guilt and depression and
self-condemnation [syn: {binge-eating syndrome}]
2: pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by
brain lesions)
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