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Damaged cuticles, shortened and damaged nails, hangnails, bleeding, etc. Nail biting, also known as onychophagy or onychophagia, is an oral compulsive and unhygienic 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.
OCD. Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit. skin and φαγεία lit. 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.
Specialty. Dermatology. Psychiatry. Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused. [ 4][ 5]
August 16, 2024 at 6:25 PM. Miranda Sipps. The mother and stepfather of a 12-year-old Texas girl were arrested on a felony charge after she died from serious injuries they tried to treat with ...
August 8, 2024 at 2:56 PM. By Mahmoud Issa. GAZA (Reuters) - Like thousands of Gaza children, Yasmine Al-Shanbari, 3, is not only suffering from the upheaval of war all around them. She is ravaged ...
August 1, 2024 at 5:32 PM. By Sarah N. Lynch. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department found on Thursday that Texas has routinely violated the civil rights of juveniles at five of its ...
On 19 February 2024, a group of United Nations special rapporteurs released a report stating "rights experts call for probe into violations against Palestinian women and girls." According to the report, there is evidence that during the Israel–Hamas war , Palestinian women and girls were subjected to wartime sexual violence . [ 7 ]
Camp Steiner played a formative role in the lives of generations of Boy Scouts. You never forget your first big trip away from home. For Ben Lusty and generations of Boy Scouts, it was at Camp ...