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Descriptor English: Bulimia
Descriptor Spanish: Bulimia
Descriptor bulimia
Scope note: Comer una cantidad excesiva de ALIMENTO en un corto período de tiempo, como ocurre en la BULIMIA NERVIOSA. Está causado por un ansia anormal por comer o hambre insaciable también conocida por "hambre de buey".
Descriptor Portuguese: Bulimia
Descriptor French: Boulimie
Entry term(s): Binge Eating
Bulimias
Eating, Binge
Tree number(s): C23.888.821.645.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002032
Scope note: Eating an excess amount of food in a short period of time, as seen in the disorder of BULIMIA NERVOSA. It is caused by an abnormal craving for food, or insatiable hunger also known as "ox hunger".
Annotation: BULIMIA NERVOSA is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Hyperphagia (1981-1986)
Public MeSH Note: 87; was see HYPERPHAGIA 1981-86
Online Note: search HYPERPHAGIA 1981-86
History Note: 87; was see HYPERPHAGIA 1981-86
Related: Bulimia Nervosa MeSH
DeCS ID: 24007
Unique ID: D002032
NLM Classification: WM 175
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1987/01/01
Date of Entry: 1986/05/30
Revision Date: 2005/06/30
Bulimia - Preferred
Concept UI M0003021
Scope note Eating an excess amount of food in a short period of time, as seen in the disorder of BULIMIA NERVOSA. It is caused by an abnormal craving for food, or insatiable hunger also known as "ox hunger".
Preferred term Bulimia
Entry term(s) Binge Eating
Bulimias
Eating, Binge



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