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  2. 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.

  3. Aphagia - Wikipedia

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    Aphagia. Arrow pointing to hypothalamus in human brain. The hypothalamus is responsible for controlling food intake and swallowing. Aphagia is the inability or refusal to swallow. [1][2] The word is derived from the Ancient Greek prefix α, meaning "not" or "without," and the suffix φαγία, derived from the verb φαγεῖν, meaning "to eat."

  4. 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.

  5. What to Know About Dermatophagia, the ‘Skin-Eating ... - AOL

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  6. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Origin language and etymology Example(s) capill-of or pertaining to hair Latin capillus, hair capillus: capit-pertaining to the head as a whole Latin caput, capit-, the head capitation, decapitation carcin-cancer: Greek καρκίνος (karkínos), crab carcinoma: cardi-of or pertaining to the heart: Greek καρδία (kardía), heart ...

  7. High-definition television transition - Wikipedia

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    The transition to high-definition television is a process by which standard-definition (SD) television signals are upgraded to a high-definition (HD) format. [1] In this process, channels usually either simulcast their HD signals alongside the existing SD signals or broadcast exclusively in HD.

  8. Excoriation disorder - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Notes Adyghe: къалэ [qaːɮa] ⓘ 'town' Can also be pronounced as : Arabic: Classical Arabic: الأَرضِ [lʔarɮˤi] ⓘ 'the earth' Bura [1] [example needed] Contrasts with and . [1] English: South African: ibandla [iˈbaːnɮa] 'meeting of a Nguni chief or community' Only found in Zulu loan words in South African English ...