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appetite (apīә-tīt) the desire for food, stimulated by the sight, smell, or thought of food and accompanied by flow of saliva in the mouth and of gastric juice in the stomach. Appetite is psychological, dependent on memory and associations, as compared with hunger, which is physiologically aroused by the body's need for food. See also anorexia.
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