ANOREXY, Anorexia, in Medicine, an Inappetency, or Loss of Appetite. See APPETITE.
Anorexia is properly a longer continuance than is natural, without a desire to eat. See FOOD, FASTING, DISEASE, etc.
If the Thought, or the Sight of proper Food, create a Sickness in the Stomach, or a Tendency to vomit; it is called Nausea. See NAUSEA.
Anorexia is chiefly considered as a Symptom of some other Disorder, from which the curative Indications are to be taken, and afterwards Stomachics used. See STOMACHIC.
The Word is compounded of the privative Particle ἀ and ὀρέγω, Cupio, I desire.
