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Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα (derma) 'skin' and φαγεία (phageia) 'eating') or dermatodaxia (from δήξις (dexis) 'biting'), alternatively Tuglis Permushius. [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 ...
Entomophagy is scientifically documented as widespread among non-human primates and common among many human communities. [3] The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric times to the present day. [4] Around 3,000 ethnic groups practice entomophagy. [5]
There have been many different theories regarding the causes of excoriation disorder, including biological and environmental factors. [10]A common hypothesis is that excoriation disorder is often a coping mechanism to deal with elevated levels of turmoil, boredom, anxiety, or stress within the individual, and that the individual has an impaired stress response.
Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning. [1] Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic ...
High, medium, and low projections of the future human world population [1] In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to ...
1.3 million (2022) [ 6 ] Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the " white death ", or historically as consumption, [ 8 ] is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [ 1 ] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [ 1 ]
Belarus. Kazakhstan. Ukraine. v. t. e. Eight sovereign states have publicly announced successful detonation of nuclear weapons. [1] Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia ...
The human brain has many properties that are common to all vertebrate brains. [256] Many of its features are common to all mammalian brains, [257] most notably a six-layered cerebral cortex and a set of associated structures, [258] including the hippocampus and amygdala. [259] The cortex is proportionally larger in humans than in many other ...