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2. Nail biting - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Autophagia - Wikipedia

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   Autophagia. Autophagia is the practice of biting/consuming one's body. It is a sub category of self-injurious behavior (SIB). [1] Commonly, it manifests in humans as nail biting and hair pulling. In rarer circumstances, it manifests as serious self mutilative behavior such as biting off one's fingers. [2] Autophagia affects both humans and non ...

4. Dermatophagia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. Frostbite - Wikipedia

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   Frostbite. Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when someone is exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, [1] commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas. [6] Most often, frostbite occurs in the hands and feet. [7][8] The initial symptoms are typically a feeling of ...

6. Tingling in your fingers isn't uncommon – but here's when you ...

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   Tingling in the fingers results from “a disruption or change in the nerve supply,” says Dr. Ernestine A. Wright, an internal medicine physician and a primary care physician at Mercy Medical ...

7. Chilblains - Wikipedia

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   Pronunciation. / ˈtʃɪlbleɪnz /. Specialty. Internal medicine, podiatry. Chilblains, also known as pernio, is a medical condition in which damage occurs to capillary beds in the skin, most often in the hands or feet, when blood perfuses into the nearby tissue, resulting in redness, itching, inflammation, and possibly blisters. [2]

8. Doctors Explain the Real Reason Fingers Get Pruney in Water - AOL

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   Reynaud’s syndrome. This is a condition that affects blood circulation to the fingers and toes that may cause wrinkling in the area. According to Dr. Zeichner, it may also cause the fingertips ...

9. Green nail syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Green nail syndrome is an infection that can develop in individuals whose hands are frequently submerged in water resulting in discolouration of the nails from shades of green to black. [3][4] It may also occur as transverse green stripes that are ascribed to intermittent episodes of infection. [3] It is usually caused by the bacteria ...