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Markedly decreased appetite
Markedly decreased appetite (anorexia) is a symptom in which a person has little appetite (little desire to eat food). Anorexia nervosa, however, is a psychiatric disorder in which a "too skinny" person believes she is too fat, and has an abnormal fear of eating and of weight gain.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
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