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megarexia

megarexia
 n.— « anorexia was first diagnosed in the early 1990s by Dr. Harrison Pope, a Harvard psychiatrist and a bodybuilder. In addition to Pope’s , Dr. William N. Taylor, an on anabolic steroids, found that steroid users also develop distorted body images so that they perceive their reflections in the as smaller than they actually are; Taylor called his discovery megarexia.» —by Lynne Luciano Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America Jan. 9, 2002. (: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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