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Geophagy logo #10101) Eating 2) Eating earth or clay or chalk 3) Eating earth, clay, chalk 4) Feeding 5) Geophagia 6) Pica
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Geophagy

Geophagy logo #10101) Geophagia
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Geophagy

Geophagy logo #21000 Geophagy is the practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk. It occurs in non-human animals where it may be a normal or abnormal behaviour, and also in humans, most often in rural or preindustrial societies among children and pregnant women. Human geophagy may be related to pica, a classified eating disorder in the DSM-I...
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geophagy

geophagy logo #22641practice of feeding on soil; dirt-eating
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geophagy

geophagy logo #21001(je-of´ә-je) geophagia.
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geophagy

geophagy logo #20400[n] - eating earth or clay or chalk
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geophagy

geophagy logo #21009geophagous, geophage, geophagy 1. Feeding on soil; deriving nutrients from soil or the sediment. 2. Ingestion of earthy substances like clay; as a result of starvation, lack of something in the diet, or possibly as a result of mental illness. More details about geophagy.
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geophagy

geophagy logo #24142Consumption of soil, clay, or sand.
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geophagy

geophagy logo #20974geophagia noun eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency
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Geophagy

Geophagy logo #22222The practice of eating earth.
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