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Concept information

Preferred term

hunger

Type

  • Topic

Broader concept

Scope note

  • Use for the desire for food generated by a sensation arising from lack of food in the stomach; For physiological state caused by lengthy and continuous deprivation of food USE starvation.

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/11270

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