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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]
A 66-year-old man mutilated his fingers by biting them for six years, resulting in loss of the terminal phalanges of all fingers on both hands. [10] Andre Thomas, a convicted murderer and death row inmate from Grayson County, Texas, removed his left eye on 9 December 2008. He had already removed his right eye in 2004 after murdering his ...
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]
Man's hand showing yubitsume, with the upper two portions of the little finger having been removed. Yubitsume (指詰め, "finger shortening") or otoshimae is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger.
Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα (derma) 'skin' and φαγεία (phageia) 'eating') or dermatodaxia (from δήξις (dexis) 'biting') [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers.
At first, Max Armstrong paid no attention to the "little burn" he got on a camping trip. The 40-year-old from San Diego — who now lives in Castle Rock, Colo. — had previously sustained plenty ...
The earliest sign of a contracture is a triangular "puckering" of the skin of the palm as it passes over the flexor tendon just before the flexor crease of the finger, at the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint. [citation needed] Late stage Dupuytren's contracture upon the left hand affecting the little finger and the ring finger but not the index ...
Nordquist was originally from Minnesota and traveled to the Finger Lakes area last September. He was reported missing on Feb. 9. Authorities said Sunday his assailants were known to each other ...