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Definition of Coprophagia
1. Noun. Eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity.
Definition of Coprophagia
1. Noun. (alternative form of coprophagy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Coprophagia
1. Eating of excrement. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coprophagia
Literary usage of Coprophagia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1917)
"Comparing the two races, it is seen that the negro pupil runs a greater chance
of unconscious coprophagia than does the white, and comparing the two sexes ..."
2. Psyche: A Concise and Easily Comprehensible Treatise on the Elements of by Max Talmey (1910)
"coprophagia is a pathognomonic sign of insanity, and the statement has correctly
been made that coprophagia alone suffices to establish the diagnosis ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"... and coprophagia; and thus in each case there is some responsibility, although
in many instances it would be unjust to estimate it from the standard of ..."
4. Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based by Charles Baudouin (1922)
"These range from coprophagia, or the impulse to eat excrement, to drunkenness,
which is scarcely less disgusting. To this subject we shall return. ..."
5. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"... such as exists in acute manic disorders, can be successfully simulated, and
he has never seen a malingerer masturbate openly, or practice coprophagia. ..."
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