单词 | adephagia |
释义 | † adephagian. Medicine. Obsolete. rare. Voracious or insatiable appetite (for food or certain foods). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > excessive hunger bulimiaa1398 dog's hunger1592 dogged hunger1599 dog hunger1605 canine appetite1609 dog appetite1615 doggish appetitea1620 ox-hunger1623 polyphagia1693 adephagia1753 polyphagy1802 hyperphagia1941 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 5 Adephagia is the greediness of children, who ever now and then fall to fresh feeding before their former victuals are digested.] 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Some use Addephagia in a more extensive sense, for voraciousness in the general, so as to comprehend the bulimia, pica, and malacia. 1805 T. Lewis Welsh-Eng. Dict. 147/2 Gwanc,..y wanc, the adephagia. 1892 Med. Age 10 509/2 A Mahomedan lady, at Rangoon, came under my treatment with the following symptoms: Debility, polydipsia, addephagia, pruritus vulvæ..and polyuria. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1753 |
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