How to Use anorexia nervosa in a Sentence

anorexia nervosa

noun

• Born in New York City in 1943, Glück struggled with anorexia nervosa as a teenager and young adult.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
• Within a year, I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa — a disorder that wreaked havoc on my mind and body for many years to come.
  — Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Nine years ago, JD Oullette nearly lost her daughter Kinsey, then 17, to a near-fatal bout with anorexia nervosa.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2021
• The story outlined the experiences of a young girl who was admitted to the hospital with anorexia nervosa.
  — Marija Butkovic, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The medical term anorexia nervosa (starvation by the mind) was only identified much later, by the British physician William Gull in 1873.
  — Anna Shechtman, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• In 2017, Hennie Thomson checked herself into a hospital for six weeks of in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa.
  — Kendall Powell, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
• The main symptom of anorexia nervosa is a significant weight loss—usually around 15% of a person's body weight, according to Vazzana.
  — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• About 1 in 4 people with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa will attempt to kill themselves, and those with anorexia have a risk of death by suicide 31 times higher than peers without the disorder.
  — April Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2024
• Kace Boland, a former college athlete, was diagnosed with restrictive type anorexia nervosa at age 18.
  — Christie Calucchia, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2023
• Karen Carpenter’s death in 1983 was attributed to heart failure caused by an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, leaving her legacy frozen in time.
  — al, 28 Jan. 2022
• Oh My Girl’s first single since the withdrawal of former member JinE, who left the group due to ongoing health complications related to her struggle with anorexia nervosa.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2018
• Although anorexia nervosa was first identified in both boys and girls in the 19th century, Murray said boys were excluded from the research and the diagnostic criteria.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
• Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nayak said, is researching whether the hallucinogen can help people stop smoking, as well as anorexia nervosa, chronic lyme disease and Alzheimer's.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Ongoing and planned studies are testing the drug for conditions that include opioid dependence, PTSD and anorexia nervosa.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 20 July 2022
• The three most common types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
  — Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• This includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating.
  — Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• After being rushed to the hospital, her heart rate was so low that Herrera, grappling with anorexia nervosa, was immediately admitted to an ED treatment center.
  — Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• Watching mukbang could also negatively impact people on the other side of the disordered eating spectrum—those with a tendency to under-consume, as is the case with anorexia nervosa.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 4 May 2023
• For example, a 15-year-old with an eating disorder, particularly anorexia nervosa, has 10 times the risk of dying in her teen years compared to another teen who doesn't have an eating disorder, McLain said.
  — Gracie Bonds Staples, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The 11 additional conditions that now qualify for medical cannabis use include chronic pain, anorexia nervosa and autism.
  — Jamie Munks, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Within months of completing the assignment, Ana was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and hospitalized.
  — Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• The three most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
  — Kendall Powell, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
• That heart-wrenching statistic applies specifically to anorexia nervosa, which causes a person to severely limit their food intake.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The most common eating disorders, Mayo Clinic says, are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
• These disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating disorder, the alliance said.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• There's yet another issue: Most of the in-patients at Norris's hospital were hospitalized due to anorexia nervosa, a type of eating disorder that manifests with an intense fear of gaining weight due to a distorted body image.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• Eating disorders, or EDs, are a group of mental illnesses that most commonly include anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge-eating disorder.
  — Sandhya Raman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
• There is a spectrum, says Maine: On one end is eating intuitively without fear or judgment; on the other are eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or some combination of all of them.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 26 Feb. 2021
• Watch for eating disorders The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
  — Rochelle Koff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• In that 2013 edition, a new diagnosis appeared — atypical anorexia nervosa — after health care providers noticed more patients showing up for treatment with all the symptoms of anorexia nervosa except one: a significantly low weight.
  — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024