bulimia

n. a serious mental health condition where you eat a large amount of food and then force yourself to be sick to avoid gaining weight.

n. a psychiatric eating disorder characterized by episodes of binge eating followed by purging, typically through self-induced vomiting or laxative use.

“She sought professional help to recover from her struggle with bulimia.”

“The clinical diagnosis of bulimia nervosa requires a pattern of recurrent binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors occurring at least once a week.”

Technical

n. an old-fashioned word for feeling extremely hungry all the time.

n. an abnormal or excessive hunger; the literal etymological sense before the term was restricted to the specific eating disorder.

“The old medical book described his constant craving for food as a form of bulimia.”

“In nineteenth-century medical literature, the term bulimia was occasionally used to describe any instance of morbidly increased appetite regardless of purging.”

Archaic · Technical