Hyperphagia is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hyperphagia in a sentence
Hyperphagia meaning
Synonym of polyphagia (“excessive appetite for food”).
Using Hyperphagia
- The main meaning on this page is: Synonym of polyphagia (“excessive appetite for food”).
- In the example corpus, hyperphagia often appears in combinations such as: hyperphagia and.
Context around Hyperphagia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hyperphagia
- In this selection, "hyperphagia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, caused, autumn and delays stand out and add context to how "hyperphagia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 20s with hyperphagia that pathological and bears in hyperphagia will spend. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hyperphagia" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hyperphagia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crops are frequently eaten by these bears, especially during autumn hyperphagia when natural foods are scarce. (16 words)
Whole-body urea cycling and protein turnover during hyperphagia and dormancy in growing bears (Ursus americanus and U. arctos). (19 words)
Finally, conditional postnatal knockout of caused hyperphagia, with no loss of PVN neurons or gross changes to their hindbrain projections (). (20 words)
On this slide, you see a picture of Kathryn who was diagnosed as BBS when she was six years old and struggled throughout her teens and early 20s with hyperphagia, that pathological hunger that leads to abnormal food seeking behaviors and severe obesity. (43 words)
More aspects seen in a clinical overview include hypotonia and abnormal neurologic function, hypogonadism, developmental and cognitive delays, hyperphagia and obesity, short stature, and behavioral and psychiatric disturbances. (28 words)
Officials said bears in hyperphagia will spend up to 20 hours a day searching out and eating as much food as possible to fatten up for winter. (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
Officials said bears in hyperphagia will spend up to 20 hours a day searching out and eating as much food as possible to fatten up for winter.
On this slide, you see a picture of Kathryn who was diagnosed as BBS when she was six years old and struggled throughout her teens and early 20s with hyperphagia, that pathological hunger that leads to abnormal food seeking behaviors and severe obesity.
According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, bears enter a period of compulsive overeating called hyperphagia in the fall to prepare for winter.
Finally, conditional postnatal knockout of caused hyperphagia, with no loss of PVN neurons or gross changes to their hindbrain projections ().
Crops are frequently eaten by these bears, especially during autumn hyperphagia when natural foods are scarce.
More aspects seen in a clinical overview include hypotonia and abnormal neurologic function, hypogonadism, developmental and cognitive delays, hyperphagia and obesity, short stature, and behavioral and psychiatric disturbances.
Whole-body urea cycling and protein turnover during hyperphagia and dormancy in growing bears (Ursus americanus and U. arctos).
Common combinations with hyperphagia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: