limotherapy
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prettygoodwordlimotherapy - n., treatment of a disease by fasting.
A.k.a., a hunger cure. Coined from the Greek root limos, hunger, which is also behind such words as bulimia. (There is also, I just discovered, limophobia.)
---L.
A.k.a., a hunger cure. Coined from the Greek root limos, hunger, which is also behind such words as bulimia. (There is also, I just discovered, limophobia.)
---L.
