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The left side of the image is showing the temperature increase caused by an insect bite after about 28 hours. Most arthropod bites and stings cause self-limited redness, itchiness and/or pain around the site.
For people who can’t stop biting their nails or picking at their skin, a new study suggests that a simple technique could help. Body-focused repetitive behaviors — compulsively pulling or ...
The photograph on the "Body-focussed repetitive behaviour" page labelled dermatotillomania (the photo of the hand that has callouses on the knuckles) looks more like a picture of dermatophagia. It matches the description in the cited article "Dermatophagia simulating callosities", which describes a 15-year-old boy with calluses on his knuckles ...
The cause is the chronic parafunctional activity of the masticatory system, which produces frictional, crushing, and incisive damage to the mucosal surface, and over time, the characteristic lesions develop.
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a breed suspected to be predisposed to fly biting. Fly biting (also called fly catching or fly snapping) refers to a type of dog behavior: episodes of intentional focused biting at the air, as if the dog is biting at imaginary flies.
Trichophagia is a form of disordered eating in which persons with the disorder suck on, chew, swallow, or otherwise eat hair. [1] The term is derived from ancient Greek θρίξ, thrix ("hair") and φαγεῖν, phagein ("to eat"). [2]
Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus Leishmania. [7] It is generally spread through the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia, and occurs most frequently in the tropics and sub-tropics of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and southern Europe.
Trombiculidae (/ t r ɒ m b ɪ ˈ k juː l ɪ d iː /), commonly referred to in North America as chiggers and in Britain as harvest mites, but also known as berry bugs, bush-mites, red bugs or scrub-itch mites, are a family of mites. [3]