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Noun: bulimia  byoo'limeeu [N. Amer], bû'limeeu [Brit]
  1. A disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
    - binge-eating syndrome
     
  2. Pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)

Derived forms: bulimias

See also: bulimic

Type of: eating disorder, hunger, hungriness

Encyclopedia: Bulimia