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Noun: bulimia nervosa
  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
    - bulimarexia, binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit syndrome

Type of: eating disorder

Encyclopedia: Bulimia nervosa