Psychiatry and Psychology

Feeding Behavior

Behavioral responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Behavioral responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals.

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Synonyms

35 entry terms
  • Eating Behavior
  • Feeding-Related Behavior
  • Behavior, Eating
  • Behavior, Feeding
  • Behavior, Feeding-Related
  • Behaviors, Eating
  • Behaviors, Feeding
  • Behaviors, Feeding-Related
  • Eating Behaviors
  • Feeding Behaviors
  • Feeding Related Behavior
  • Feeding-Related Behaviors
  • Diet Habits
  • Dietary Habits
  • Eating Habits
  • Faith-based Dietary Restrictions
  • Feeding Patterns
  • Food Habits
  • Diet Habit
  • Dietary Habit
  • Dietary Restriction, Faith-based
  • Dietary Restrictions, Faith-based
  • Eating Habit
  • Faith based Dietary Restrictions
  • Faith-based Dietary Restriction
  • Feeding Pattern
  • Food Habit
  • Habit, Diet
  • Habit, Dietary
  • Habit, Eating
  • Habit, Food
  • Habits, Diet
  • Pattern, Feeding
  • Patterns, Feeding
  • Restrictions, Faith-based Dietary

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7 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, drug effects, ethics, ethnology, physiology, psychology, radiation effects.

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Indexing Annotation

human & animal; = manner of eating or feeding: differentiate from EATING, the act of eating or feeding; permitted for feeding behavior of insects, as mosquitoes on skin, ticks sucking blood, maggots on flesh, etc., but NIM with feeding organism IM

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History Note

1969

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Previous Indexing

  • Behavior (1966-1968)
  • Nutrition (1966-1968)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Feeding Behavior. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005247. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005247
  2. Feeding Behavior. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_behavior
  3. Feeding Behavior. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14819856