orexi-, orex-, -orexia, -orexic, -oretic, -orectic, -rexia +

1. Relating to a pathological loss of appetite.
2. Marked by loss of appetite.
3. Suppressing or causing loss of appetite.
4. An anorectic drug or medicine that suppresses the appetite.
5. Of or affected with anorexia nervosa.
6. A person who is affected with anorexia nervosa.

1. Having no appetite.
2. Causing a loss of appetite.

1. A lack or loss of appetite for food.
2. No appetite; also, a shortened term for anorexia nervosa.

1. A drug or substance that leads to anorexia or diminished appetite.
2. An appetite suppressant.

1. A person suffering from anorexia nervosa.
2. Suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin; anorectic.
3. Characterized by severe economy of style and expression.

1. Promoting or causing anorexia.
2. Causing anorexia, or loss of appetite; such as, with an anorexigenic drug.

1. A disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting.
2. A syndrome in which the symptoms of both bulimia and anorexia nervosa are present, characterized by distorted body image, excessive weight loss, and use of forced vomiting to compensate for periods of binge eating.

1. A ravenous or insatiable appetite for food.
2. An eating disorder marked by rapid consumption of large amounts of food, often of minimal nutritional value, in a short period of time.

Such eating, or binge eating, is typically episodic and recurrent, accompanied by an awareness that such overeating is abnormal, by fear that eating cannot be stopped voluntarily, and by a depressed mood and self-deprecating thoughts after each binge.

Each binge is usually terminated by abdominal pain, induced vomiting, or a social interruption of the secret eating pattern.

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

A pathological or uncontrollable consumption of alcohol.

Impaired or perverted appetite; eating disorder.

An excessive appetite or an eating disorder which is characterized by self-induced vomiting after eating.

Diminished appetite.

1. A wolfish or ravenous appetite.
2. An excessive appetite like that of a wolf.

1. Pertaining to or characterized by orexia.
2. A reference to desires; therefore, impelling to gratification; appetitive.