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Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver; [2] it is a type of viral hepatitis. [6] During the initial infection period, people often have mild or no symptoms. [1] Early symptoms can include fever, dark urine, abdominal pain, and yellow tinged skin. [1]
Dermatilliomania refers to picking, which can mean picking scabs, tearing at dry skin, or just generally causing damage anywhere with your nails or (I'm ashamed to say) implements like needles, pins, or anything with a point. Dermatophagia is specifically biting.
Specialty. Neurology. Extrapyramidal symptoms ( EPS) are symptoms that are archetypically associated with the extrapyramidal system of the brain's cerebral cortex. When such symptoms are caused by medications or other drugs, they are also known as extrapyramidal side effects ( EPSE ). The symptoms can be acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term).
Autophagia refers to the practice of biting/consuming one's body. It is a sub category of self-injurious behavior (SIB). [1] Commonly, it manifests in humans as nail biting and hair pulling. In rarer circumstances, it manifests as serious self mutilative behavior such as biting off one's fingers. [2] Autophagia affects both humans and non ...
B symptoms are a set of symptoms, namely fever, night sweats, and unintentional weight loss, that can be associated with both Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These symptoms are not specific to lymphomas, especially each one considered individually, and even as a trio they are not pathognomonic for lymphomas, but the presence of the ...
If anyone would care to take a look at the picture for the dermatophagia page - those symptoms are very very similar to what you would see for dermatotilliomania of the fingers. this is from my own experience as a sufferer of both. the main difference between the two is that biting produces a more irregular pattern of sores and scarring. Not ...
Compulsive behavior (or compulsion) is defined as performing an action persistently and repetitively. Compulsive behaviors could be an attempt to make obsessions go away. [1] Compulsive behaviors are a need to reduce apprehension caused by internal feelings a person wants to abstain from or control. [2] A major cause of compulsive behavior is ...
Symptoms is a 1974 British psychological horror film directed by José Ramón Larraz and starring Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, and Lorna Heilbron. The film, based on a story by Thomas Owen , follows a woman who goes to stay with a friend at her family remote English manor where all is not as it seems.