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Symptoms. Not wanting to eat, no hunger, dizziness, weakness. Anorexia is a medical term for a loss of appetite. While the term outside of the scientific literature is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a loss of appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical ...
Klüver–Bucy syndrome is a syndrome resulting from lesions of the medial temporal lobe, particularly Brodmann area 38, [ 1] causing compulsive eating, hypersexuality, a compulsive need to insert inappropriate objects in the mouth ( hyperorality ), visual agnosia, and docility. Klüver–Bucy syndrome is more commonly found in rhesus monkeys ...
782.7 Petechiae. 782.8 Change in skin texture. 782.9 Other symptoms involving skin. 783 Symptoms concerning nutrition, metabolism and development. 783.0 Anorexia. Loss of appetite. 783.1 Abnormal weight gain. 783.2 Abnormal loss of weight. 783.3 Feeding difficulties and mismanagement.
Frequency. 2% (people in hospital) [ 1] Hypophosphatemia is an electrolyte disorder in which there is a low level of phosphate in the blood. [ 1] Symptoms may include weakness, trouble breathing, and loss of appetite. [ 1] Complications may include seizures, coma, rhabdomyolysis, or softening of the bones.
Frequency. 70% (elderly inpatients) Hypoalbuminemia (or hypoalbuminaemia) is a medical sign in which the level of albumin in the blood is low. [ 1] This can be due to decreased production in the liver, increased loss in the gastrointestinal tract or kidneys, increased use in the body, or abnormal distribution between body compartments.
Electrolyte imbalance. Diagram of ion concentrations and charge across a semi-permeable cellular membrane. Electrolyte imbalance, or water-electrolyte imbalance, is an abnormality in the concentration of electrolytes in the body. Electrolytes play a vital role in maintaining homeostasis in the body. They help to regulate heart and neurological ...
These eating disorders are specified as mental disorders in standard medical manuals, including the ICD-10 and the DSM-5. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health. It is accompanied by an ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [ 1] Work on ICD-10 began in 1983, [ 2 ...