拒食症

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 拒食症 combines 拒食, refusal of food, with 症, condition, and is read きょしょくしょう.
• Basic usage: It denotes anorexia and discussion of support for it, as in 拒食症への支援 and 拒食症に悩む.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Support and affected person
  • Support is linked in 拒食症への支援, while a person struggling with the condition appears in 拒食症に悩む人物.
• Difference from 食欲不振
  • 食欲不振 describes poor appetite, while 拒食症 names the condition treated as a subject of support or personal struggle in the examples.