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OCD. Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit.skin and φαγείαlit.eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit.biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is considered to be a type of pica.
Docking (the insertion of one man's penis into another man's foreskin) is also practiced. Manual sex is another non-penetrative sex act that can occur between men. This includes handjobs, which is the use of one's hands to stimulate someone else's penis or scrotum, and anal fingering, which is the use of one's fingers to stimulate someone's anus.
Dermatillomania (picking of the skin) of the knuckles (via mouth), illustrating disfiguration of the distal and proximal joints of the middle and little fingers Body-focused repetitive behavior ( BFRB ) is an umbrella name for impulse control [1] behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or causing physical injury.
Baker wrote in The Guardian that Polari was often used sarcastically or as a way to throw shade. This included inventing feminizing terms for the largely male group (at the time) that persecuted ...
Nail biting, also known as onychophagy or onychophagia, is an oral compulsive habit of biting one's fingernails. It is sometimes described as a parafunctional activity, the common use of the mouth for an activity other than speaking, eating, or drinking. Nail biting is very common, especially amongst children. 25–35 percent of children bite ...
In men, the most common form of hair loss is male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia, which is caused by a mix of genetic factors and the effects of the hormone dihydrotestosterone, or DHT ...
Oral candidiasis (Acute pseudomembranous candidiasis) ,which is also known as oral thrush, among other names, [1] is candidiasis that occurs in the mouth. That is, oral candidiasis is a mycosis (yeast/fungal infection) of Candida species on the mucous membranes of the mouth . Candida albicans is the most commonly implicated organism in this ...
The stages of HIV infection are acute infection (also known as primary infection), latency, and AIDS. Acute infection lasts for several weeks and may include symptoms such as fever, swollen lymph nodes, inflammation of the throat, rash, muscle pain, malaise, and mouth and esophageal sores. The latency stage involves few or no symptoms and can ...