A tendency or craving to eat substances other than normal foodstuffs, esp. non-nutritive substances, seen chiefly during childhood or pregnancy or…
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > depraved appetite (13) pica1563 A tendency or craving to eat substances other than normal foodstuffs, esp. non-nutritive substances, seen chiefly during childhood or pregnancy or… green sickness1596 In extended use and figurative, frequently with reference to the abnormal appetite (pica) often accompanying the disorder. malacia1656 Abnormal craving for certain kinds of food. Formerly also: †queasiness, nausea (obsolete). Now chiefly historical. pique1678 = pica, n.2 dirt-eating1817 A disorder of the nutritive functions, characterized by a morbid craving to eat earth or dirt. geophagy1821 The act or practice of eating earth, esp. as a form of pica. earth hunger1857 A craving for eating soil; = pica, n.2 Cf. earth-eating n. adj. at earth, n.1 compounds 8b. rare. geophagia1863 = geophagy, n. coprophagy1891 the eating of excrement. parorexia1897 Disordered or abnormal appetite; spec. pica. coprophagia1906 = coprophagy n. at coprophagous, adj. derivatives. trichophagia1909 the phenomenon or habit of eating or chewing one's own hair. trichophagy1963 = trichophagia n. at additions above. |
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