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  2. Dermatophagia - Wikipedia

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    Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit. skin and φαγεία lit. eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit. biting) is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers.

  3. Autophagia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Nail biting - Wikipedia

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    Fingers of a nail-biter. Nail biting, also known as onychophagy or onychophagia, is an oral compulsive 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. To stop nail-biting, skin picking and hair pulling, new ... - AOL

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    How do you stop biting your nails? An approach called habit replacement could help nail biters quit. It could also help with skin picking and trichotillomania.

  6. Serious health risks from biting your nails will horrify you

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    When you bite your nails, you're transferring potentially dangerous bacteria into your vital organs, putting yourself at risk for abdominal pain and/or infection. The problem doesn't stop at...

  7. How bad is it to bite your nails? - AOL

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    Onychophagia, or nail biting, is a pretty common habit, affecting an estimated 20 to 30 percent of the population.

  8. Body-focused repetitive behavior - Wikipedia

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    Body-focused repetitive behavior. Dermatillomania (picking of the skin) of the knuckles (via mouth), illustrating disfiguration of the distal and proximal joints of the middle and little fingers. Body-focused repetitive behavior ( BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse control [1] behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical ...

  9. How to Stop Biting Your Nails: 7 Tips for Halting the Habit - AOL

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    But how do you actually stop biting your nails? It wasn’t until we employed these seven tips that our hands... Confession: Until pretty recently, we were card-carrying nail biters.

  10. Stereotypic movement disorder - Wikipedia

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    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

  11. How to Stop Biting Your Nails, According to Behavioral Experts

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