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  2. Habit-tic deformity - Wikipedia

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    Habit-tic deformity is caused by long-term external trauma to the nail matrix as a result of skin-picking around the affected nail. The underlying cause is habitual skin picking as a body-focused repetitive behavior which often worsens during times of stress, boredom, or inactivity.

  3. Murder of Sylvia Likens - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, all of Likens's fingernails were broken backwards [n 8] and most of the external layers of skin upon the child's face, breasts, neck, and right knee had peeled or receded. In her death throes, Likens had evidently bitten through her lips, partially severing sections of them from her face.

  4. Albert Fish - Wikipedia

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    Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish [1] (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928.

  5. Morsicatio buccarum - Wikipedia

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    The most common and simple treatment is the construction of a specially made acrylic prosthesis that covers the biting surfaces of the teeth and protects the cheek, tongue, and labial mucosa (an occlusal splint). This is either employed in the short term as a habit-breaking intention or more permanently (e.g., wearing the prosthesis each night ...

  6. Legality of incest - Wikipedia

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    In Russia, consensual sex (including incest sex) between adults, teenagers (12–18), or an adult with a teenager 16 or older, is not a crime. [ 115 ] [ 109 ] [ user-generated source? ] [ 116 ] However, under the Family Code of Russia , persons who are related lineally, siblings, half-siblings, and a stepparent and a stepchild may not marry.

  7. Vampire - Wikipedia

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    The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.

  8. Nail polish - Wikipedia

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    Polished nails with nail art Fingernails before, during, and after application of red nail polish A woman's toes with dark nail polish. Nail polish (also known as nail varnish in British English or nail enamel) is a lacquer that can be applied to the human fingernails or toenails to decorate and protect the nail plates. The formula has been ...

  9. Jamie Gillis - Wikipedia

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    Gillis died on February 19, 2010, in New York City from melanoma, which was diagnosed four to five months earlier. [10] In an audio interview given to The Rialto Report shortly before his death, Gillis stated that in the 1970s he had wanted his ashes to be scattered in Times Square, but years later he changed his mind, stating that the cleaned up Times Square that emerged in the 1990s would ...