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  2. Human cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal . The meaning of " cannibalism " has been extended into zoology to describe animals consuming parts of individuals of the same species as food.

  3. Cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    A slug, Arion vulgaris, eating a dead individual of the same species. Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. [1] Human cannibalism is also well documented, both in ancient and in ...

  4. Phagoptosis - Wikipedia

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    For example, phosphatidylserine is an "eat-me" signal that, when exposed on the surface of a cell, triggers phagocytes (i.e. cells that eat other cells) to eat that cell. Phosphatidylserine is normally found on the inside of healthy cells, but can become exposed on the surface of dying, activated or stressed cells.

  5. Medical cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Medical or medicinal cannibalism is the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases. The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluids often arose from the belief that because the human body is able to heal itself, it can also help heal another human body. [1]

  6. 5-year-old who battled cancer, flesh-eating fungus home from ...

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    Jin Atsumi, a 5-year-old in Long Beach who battled leukemia and a flesh-eating fungus, is finally going home after more than a year in the hospital.

  7. Cannibalism in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Jim Corbett proposed that after major epidemics, when human corpses are easily accessible to predators, there are more cases of man-eating leopards, [12] so removing dead bodies through ritual cannibalism (before the cultural traditions of burying and burning bodies appeared in human history) might have had practical reasons for hominids and ...

  8. Places where modern day cannibalism still exists - AOL

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    Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami . That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...

  9. Anthropophagy - Wikipedia

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    Exocannibalism, the consumption of flesh from humans that do not belong to one's close social group; Medical cannibalism, the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases; Man-eating animal, an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior