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  2. Lesch–Nyhan syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the second year of life, a particularly striking feature of LNS is self-mutilating behaviors, characterized by lip and finger biting. Neurological symptoms include facial grimacing, involuntary writhing, and repetitive movements of the arms and legs similar to those seen in Huntington's disease .

  3. Dermatophagia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Excoriation disorder - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms Compulsive picking of the knuckles (via mouth) illustrating potentially temporary disfiguration of the distal and proximal joints of the middle and little fingers. The fingers have been compulsively picked and chewed in someone with excoriation disorder and dermatophagia.

  5. 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.

  6. Misophonia - Wikipedia

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    Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome, sound-rage) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues. These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses that are not seen in ...

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  7. 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.

  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. Russell's sign - Wikipedia

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    Russell's sign. Causes. The most common causes of Russell’s Sign are bulimia and anorexia nervosa. Diagnostic method. Russell's Sign can be used as a factor to diagnose bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa. Differential diagnosis. indirect sign of bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa. Deaths.

  10. Trichophagia - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms. Signs and symptoms of trichophagia are variable depending on the individual's behavior patterns. Trichophagia's loosest definition is the putting of hair in one's mouth, whether that be to chew it or suck on it, with the strictest definition being that the hair is swallowed and ingested.

  11. Paronychia - Wikipedia

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    Diagnosis Types. Paronychia aka "swollen nail" may be divided as occurring suddenly, acute, or gradually, chronic. Acute. Acute paronychia is an infection of the folds of tissue surrounding the nail of a finger or, less commonly, a toe, lasting less than six weeks.