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Anorexia vs Anoxia - What's the difference?

anorexia | anoxia |

As nouns the difference between anorexia and anoxia

is that anorexia is loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease while anoxia is (pathology) a condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia.

anorexia

English

Noun

  • Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
  • Anorexia nervosa.

    • Derived terms

    * ana * anorexiant * anorexic * anorexigenic * bigorexia * manorexia * preanorexic * pro-ana

    External links

    * (wikipedia "anorexia") ----

    anoxia

    English

    (wikipedia anoxia)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pathology) A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia.

    • Derived terms

    * anoxic

    See also

    * asphyxia English terms with alpha privatives