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Autophagia is the practice of biting/consuming one's body. It is a sub category of self-injurious behavior (SIB). [1] Commonly, it manifests in humans as nail biting and hair pulling. In rarer circumstances, it manifests as serious self mutilative behavior such as biting off one's fingers. [2] Autophagia affects both humans and non humans. [3]
Autocannibalism, also known as self-cannibalism and autosarcophagy, is the practice of eating parts of one's own body. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Generally, only the consumption of flesh (including organ meat such as heart or liver ) by an individual of the same species is considered cannibalism . [ 3 ]
David Playpenz, of Colchester, England, lost one of his fingers in a motorcycle accident. After asking for his amputated finger, he took it home and boiled it and ate the finger. Before that, he took a photo of the finger and posted on Facebook. [12] 21-year-old Brendan Higginbotham of County Kildare, Ireland, was tortured by criminals in 2011 ...
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Additionally, swan-neck deformity can be caused by weakening or tearing of the ligament and tendon on the middle joint of a finger. [10] Other causes of swan-neck deformity include untreated mallet finger, muscle spasticity, physical hand trauma, and many others. [11]
A 20-year-old Canadian man no longer has two of his healthy fingers after deciding to get them amputated, and body integrity identity disorder is why doctors agreed to it.
Blisters in particular can cause a feeling of desire to pull or bite off the affected skin and nails (since the skin is dead, thus easily pulled off), which could be detrimental, causing infection. Another disorder, known as excoriation disorder, the repetitive action of uncontrollably picking at one's skin, can sometimes accompany dermatophagia.
Such damage may cause disruption in long-term visual memory and lead to improper associations of human faces. On another note, our brains interpret visual scenes in two pathways: one is via the Parietal lobe - occipital dorsal pathway (visual spatial material is analyzed here), and the other is via the temporal -occipital ventral pathway ...