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Dermatophagia. 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]
The photograph on the "Body-focussed repetitive behaviour" page labelled dermatotillomania (the photo of the hand that has callouses on the knuckles) looks more like a picture of dermatophagia. It matches the description in the cited article "Dermatophagia simulating callosities", which describes a 15-year-old boy with calluses on his knuckles ...
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Body-focused repetitive behavior. 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. [2] Body-focused repetitive behavior disorders ( BFRBDs) in ICD-11 is in development. [3]
French azote, nitrogen; from Greek άζωτικός (ázōtikós) ἀ-(a-, no, without) + ζωή (zōḗ, life)), mephitic air azothermia: raised temperature due to nitrogenous substances in blood B [ edit ]
List of English translations of. De rerum natura. Lucretius, Roman poet; and Hutchinson, possibly his earliest English translator. De rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical epic poem written by Lucretius in Latin around 55 BCE. The poem was lost during the Middle Ages, rediscovered in 1417, and first ...
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