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bulimia

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Source : WordNet®

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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