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Mental Disorders > Feeding and Eating Disorders > Pica
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms, Digestive > Pica

Preferred term

Pica  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Allotriophagy
  • Geophagia

Scope note

  • The persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at least one month.

History note

  • 72(68)

In other languages

  • pica

    Finnish

  • pica-oire
  • pica-oireyhtymä
  • pica-syndrooma
  • Pica

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010842

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