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Bouts Word Greek Boulimia Meant Limos Prefix Bous

正面 20114.bulimia
英 [bjʊ'lɪmɪə; bʊ-]美 [bu'lɪmɪə]

背面
释义:
n. 易饿病
例句:
1. Will Meredith Baxter - Birney win her fight with bulimia?梅雷迪思巴克斯特-波尼将会战胜爆食症 吗 ?

corporal肉体的,身体的。corporeal肉体的,身体的。
bulimia 神经性贪食bu, 牛,此处表强调,词源同bovine. -lim, 饥饿。
bulimiabulimia: [19] The condition now called ‘bulimia’ – in which bouts of overeating are followed by bouts of purging – was recognized and so named in the 1970s. The word used to name it, however, is much more ancient than that. It goes back to Greek boulimia, which meant ‘ravenous hunger’ (it was formed from limos ‘hunger’, with the prefix bou-; this may well have been adapted from bous ‘ox’, in which case the word would have meant literally ‘the hunger of an ox’).It originally came into English, via medieval Latin, in the late 14th century, and for many hundred years its standard form was bulimy. It was applied to a sort of hunger so extreme that it could be categorized as an illness.bulimia (n.)1976, Modern Latin, from Greek boulimia, "ravenous hunger" as a disease, literally "ox-hunger," from bou-, intensive prefix (originally from bous "ox;" see cow (n.)) + limos "hunger," from PIE root *leie- "to waste away." As a psychological disorder, technically bulemia nervosa. Englished bulimy was used from late 14c. in a medical sense of "ravishing hunger.""

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