Your patient is a 14-year-old girl. Even though she is six feet tall, she weighs only 100 pounds. Her doctor suspects that she might have an eating disorder in which the patient de-nies food due to a compulsion to become thin

The medical name for this condition is:
A. irritable bowel syndrome
B. Crohn's disease
C. anorexia nervosa
D. cirrhosis


C

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