- anorectic
- Causing loss of appetite; "an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug"
- Suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
- A person suffering from anorexia nervosa
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Definition of: ACCRETION
- accretion
- (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
- (n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
- (n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
- (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
- (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
- (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.
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- teraconic
- (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.