Structured Summary
Abstract
A rare aberrant human behavior involving consumption of excrement.
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Synonyms
5 entry terms
- Human Coprophagy
- Coprophagia, Human
- Coprophagy, Human
- Human Cecotrophy
- Cecotrophy, Human
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31 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
COPROPHAGIA is available for animals
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History Note
2014(2013)
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Previous Indexing
- Coprophagia (1970-2013)
- Feces (1966-1969)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Human Coprophagia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D064106. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D064106
- Human Coprophagia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2996866