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hyperphagia

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hyperphagia [‚hī·pər′fā·jə]
(medicine)


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Appropriately enough, curator Jean Clair's massive exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, "Melancholy," seems to suffer from hyperphagia in its attempt to devour the entire history of Western creativity in one huge, sad bite.
Hence, the large content of lipids in polar bear livers could be a function of hyperphagia and starvation due to seasonal changes in food resources, as discussed above, although we did not find a seasonal pattern.
The biological mechanisms underlying the obsessive characteristics associated with the syndrome and the potential effect of psychopharmalogical interventions in reducing hyperphagia are areas of current interest to researchers (Dimitropoulos et al.
 
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