2007-10-20 07:02:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
I've usually heard that term used in reference to someone who has a distorted body image and thinks she is fat or too big. It goes hand-in-hand with anorexia nervosa and bulimia but there is also another form referred to as "bigorexia" or "reversed anorexia nervosa" where the sufferer has delusions that he is skinny or too small even though he may be above average in musculature.
2007-10-20 07:27:37 · answer #1 · answered by soulguy85 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a formal definition
Dysmorphic feature: A body characteristic that is abnormally formed. A malformed ear, for example, is a dysmorphic feature.
Dysmorphology is a term coined by Dr. David W. Smith in the 1960's to describe the study of human congenital malformations (birth defects), particularly those affecting the morphology (the anatomy) of the individual. Dysmorphology literally mean, "the study of abnormal form."
A pediatrician, endocrinologist, embryologist and clinical geneticist himself, David Smith (1926-1981) was the seminal figure in the development of dysmorphology as an interdisciplinary area of medicine.
"As a scientific discipline, dysmorphology combines concepts, knowledge, and techniques from the fields of embryology, clinical genetics and pediatrics," Dr. Jon Aase, one of Dr. Smith's former students, has noted. "As a medical subspecialty, dysmorphology deals with people who have congenital abnormalities and with their families. Whenever any physician is confronted by a patient with a birth defect, he or she becomes, for the moment at least, a dysmorphologist." (JM Aase: Diagnostic Dysmorphology, 1990, Plenum, New York).
2007-10-20 14:11:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dysmorphia is usually an adjective used to describe something else...what did it say you have dysmorphia of?
2007-10-20 14:05:36 · answer #3 · answered by Emily 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is dysmorphic [not sure if there is such a word as dysmorphia].
Try this site : -
Dysmorphic feature definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of ...
Definition of Dysmorphic feature. Dysmorphic feature: A body characteristic that is abnormally formed. A malformed ear, for example, is a dysmorphic feature ...
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3139
2007-10-20 14:15:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all on here, Cheers.
http://www.healthline.com/search?q1=dysmorphia
2007-10-20 14:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by mailliam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dysmorphia means you have an unrealistic view of yourself of your physical self... like you are thin and think you are fat
2007-10-20 14:14:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Google it.
2007-10-20 14:10:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they didn't tell you it must not be to severe
2007-10-20 14:11:38 · answer #8 · answered by cattle_chick_380 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
obsession
2007-10-20 14:12:30 · answer #9 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋