Your patient is a 14-year-old girl. Even though she is 6 feet tall, she weighs only 100 pounds. Her doctor suspects she might have an eating disorder in which the patient avoids food due to a compulsion to become thin
The medical name for this condition is: A) irritable bowel syndrome
B) cirrhosis
C) anorexia nervosa
D) Crohn disease
C
Explanation: The term an/orex/ia nervosa literally means "nervous condition of absence of appetite."
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