10 Enlarged Spleen Symptoms
4. Loss of Appetite
Hyporexia is the medical term that describes when a person has a reduced appetite. If a person refuses to eat anything due to a total lack of appetite, then the condition is called anorexia. Many conditions can cause a person to lose their appetite, some of them are not even medical related.
This symptom can be related to the compression effect that the enlarged spleen exerts onto the neighboring stomach. It can also be associated with a systemic manifestation of an infectious condition or a malignancy.
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