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Definition of Coprophagy
1. Noun. Eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity.
Definition of Coprophagy
1. Noun. The eating of feces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coprophagy
1. [n -GIES]
Medical Definition of Coprophagy
1. Synonym: coprophagia. Origin: copro-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coprophagy
Literary usage of Coprophagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"I have known a sow to eat her whole litter of pigs, and I have seen coprophagy
in one of the elephants confined in the London Zoological Gardens. ..."
2. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"coprophagy in mice results in the ingestion of significant quantities of some
vitamins that are produced by ml- crobial synthesis in the gut. ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"coprophagy and other filthy habits may depend upon grandiose delusions as to
extraordinary virtues of the patient's excretions. ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1876)
"He was said to be wanting in touch, taste, and smell, was dirty in his habits,
and given to coprophagy. The head was less than that of the ourang-outang or ..."
5. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"He was said to be wanting in touch, taste, and smell, was dirty in his habits,
and given to coprophagy. Professor Lombroso also recorded two other ..."
6. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"... a yellow or dirty skin, loss of appetite, headache, and mental and physical
instability. mental disease. COPROLALIA.—Obscene speech due to coprophagy. ..."
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