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Specialty. Psychiatry. Types. OCD. 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 ...
Excoriation disorder. Other names. Dermatillomania, [1] skinning disorder, neurotic excoriation, acne excoriee, pathologic skin picking (PSP), compulsive skin picking (CSP), psychogenic excoriation [2] [3] Sores as a result of skin picking on arms, shoulders and chest. Specialty.
Dermatophagia, skin nibbling; Mouth Morsicatio buccarum, cheek biting; Morsicatio labiorum, inner lip biting; Morsicatio linguarum, tongue biting; Nails Onychophagia, nail biting; Onychotillomania, nail picking; Nose Rhinotillexomania, compulsive nose picking; Hair Trichophagia, hair nibbling; Trichotemnomania, hair cutting; Trichotillomania ...
Often, the adjacent skin is bitten off, too, which is called perionychophagia, a special case of dermatophagia. Biting nails can lead to broken skin on the cuticle. When cuticles are improperly removed, they are susceptible to microbial and viral infections such as paronychia. Saliva may then redden and infect the skin.
Signs and symptoms. Common repetitive movements of SMD include head banging, arm waving, hand shaking, rocking and rhythmic movements, self-biting, self-hitting, and skin-picking; other stereotypies are thumb-sucking, dermatophagia, nail biting, trichotillomania, bruxism and abnormal running or skipping. Cause
Symptoms. Common symptoms in humans include: Nail biting; Pulling hair; Chewing fingers (in extreme cases, leading to amputation) Possible causes. This section will focus on the causes for autophagia in humans. There is no single primary cause for autophagia.
Other forms of pica include dermatophagia, and compulsion of eating one's own hair, which can form a hairball in the stomach. Left untreated, this can cause death due to excessive hair buildup. Self-cannibalism can be a form of self-harm and a symptom of a mental disorder.
Symptoms include lack of sweat glands, thin hair, brittle nails, mottled skin, and lack of fingerprints. It is also characterized by a widespread, early-onset reticulate hyperpigmentation. [7] Those affected may also have adermatoglyphia , abnormal epithelial differentiation, palmoplantar hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles, acral dorsal ...
Dermatophyte (from Greek δέρμα derma "skin" (GEN δέρματος dermatos) and φυτόν phyton "plant") is a common label for a group of fungus of Arthrodermataceae that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans.
In orthodontics, a malocclusion is a misalignment or incorrect relation between the teeth of the upper and lower dental arches when they approach each other as the jaws close. The English-language term dates from 1864; [1] Edward Angle (1855–1930), the "father of modern orthodontics", [2] [3] [need quotation to verify] popularised it.