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Definition of Geophagia
1. Noun. Eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior.
Definition of Geophagia
1. Noun. Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Geophagia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Geophagia
1. Geophagismgeophagy The practice of eating dirt or clay. Synonym: dirt-eating, earth-eating. Origin: Geo-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geophagia
Literary usage of Geophagia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Hygiene: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by David Hendricks Bergey (1921)
""Depraved tastes for substances not possessed of alimentary quali ties (pica and
geophagia)are not to be yielded to. This rule regards the prevention from ..."
2. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Pica behavior is the deliberate ingestion of nonfood items including soil (geophagia).
Children with soil pica routinely ingest 5 g of soil per day with 20 ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The disease has been described under various names : tropical chlorosis, Egyptian
chlorosis, geophagia ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Dirt and clay eating (geophagia) exists not only among savages, but also in
certain sections of the civilized world, mainly among the lower classes, ..."
5. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1880)
"Finally, a case of particular interest to mo was that of a little boy with geophagia.
He was a child seven years old, with a somewhat bloated thick face. ..."
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