bulimia

• 飢えに弱い

bu、牛、ここでは強調語、語源的にはbovineと同じ -lim、空腹。

bulimia

bulimia: [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."

1. Will Meredith Baxter-Birney win her fight with bulimia ？

メレディスバクスター-ボニーは爆食症に勝つのだろうか。

2.Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have emerged as the predominant eating disorders.

神経性拒食症と神経性貪食症が主な摂食障害症状である。

3.Alcohol and bulimia have no part of our lives today.

大酒と暴食は今、私たちの生活から離れている。

4. Bulimia is a vicious cycle of starvation,eating then purging.

過食症は飢餓の悪循環であり、食べて空にする。

5.Now they must cope equally well with an attack of economic bulimia .

現在、彼らは経済的苦境の襲撃に同じように対処しなければならない。