Your Patient Is a 14-Year-Old Girl

Multiple Choice

Your patient is a 14-year-old girl. Even though she is 6 feet tall, she weighs only 100 pounds. Her doctor suspects she might have an eating disorder that causes her to avoid food due to a compulsion to become thin. The medical name for this condition is:

A) irritable bowel syndrome.
B) cirrhosis.
C) anorexia nervosa.
D) Crohn disease.