#inanition
- Abrosia — (Medicine, rare) A pathological condition characterized by a lack of food, chronic starvation, or extreme wasting caused by the refusal or inability to feed; a less frequent variant of the medical neologism 'abrozie'.
- Abrosia — (Medicine) A pathological condition consisting of the complete inability or refusal to eat, leading to cachexia, starvation, and extreme wasting; (mythology, variant) the mythological food of the Greek gods considered the source of immortality, occasionally used as a variant spelling for ambrosia.
- Apocarteresis — An extreme form of voluntary suicide through total starvation and the systematic refusal to consume food or liquids, sometimes practiced in antiquity as a philosophical, political, or ethical act of protest. In a historical medical context, the term describes the conscious cessation of life support through self-starvation, considered a radical manifestation of absolute control over one's own body.