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appetite (oh) and Darier's sign (medicine)


appetite (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: apetit, from Latin, past participle of appetere 'to try to get', from ad- 'to' + petere 'to look for']
[C usually singular, U] a desire for Food
::All that walking has given me an appetite for dinner.
::I seem to have lost my appetite lately.
::Symptoms include headaches, tiredness and loss of appetite
::Let's just say he's got a healthy appetite .
spoil/ruin your appetite
::Don't eat that cake now; you'll spoil your appetite.
[C] a desire or liking for a particular activity
appetite for
::She has an amazing appetite for knowledge.
::People seem to have an insatiable appetite (=always wanting more of something) for news of any kind.
::a loss of sexual appetite
-see also whet sb's appetite at whet (1)

Darier's sign (medicine)


Darier's sign
<clinical sign> Urtication on stroking of cutaneous lesions of urticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis).