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Abstract
The persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at least one month.
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4 entry terms
- Allotriophagy
- Geophagia
- Pagophagia
- Trichophagia
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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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1972(1968)
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- Appetite Disorders (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Pica. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010842. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010842
- Pica. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
- Pica. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1134891