anoreksia
psüühikahäire, mille tunnuseks on teadlik ja tahtlik kehakaalu alandamine alla tervisliku piiri, a serious disorder in eating behavior primarily of young women in their teens and early twenties that is characterized especially by a pathological fear of weight gain leading to faulty eating pattern, an illness in which a person has an overwhelming fear of becoming fat, and so refuses to eat enough and becomes thinner and thinner, a disorder characterized by deliberate weight loss, induced and sustained by the patient