Examples
“And yes, it looks like the results of a colon cleansing at a trichophagia clinic.”
“Turns out the young woman, whose name has not been released (we don't blame her) suffers from trichophagia.”
“We present a 7 year old girl with Rapunzel syndrome, where the trichobezoar was not suspected at all specially with negative history of trichophagia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trichophagia’.
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
More medical terms can be found on...enterectomy, ethmoid, parhidrosis, parelectronomy, parectasis, dermatoxerasia, parazygosis, parepididymis, paraspasm, lymphadenopathy, necrosemiosis, necromimesis and 770 more...
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You gonna eat that?
Man isst was man isst.
pica, allotriophagy, pagophagia, geophagy, trichophagia, coprophagia, cittosis, amylophagia, lithophagia, acuphagia, coniophagia, bibliophagia and 30 more...
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It takes all kinds...
Weird enthusiasms and the like.
bike sex, trichophagia, cannibalism, orgasmatron, robosexual, anilingus, anthropophagy
Tweets
Looking for tweets for trichophagia.
hernesheir Weirdo does have an economy of letters over "alltricophage" or "allotrichophagic"; however weirdo completely lacks the virtues of specificity and precision that the former possess. Jun 8, 2010
Prolagus Allotrichophagic? Or just weirdo? Jun 8, 2010
hernesheir What is the name for someone who eats others' hair? Jun 8, 2010
ruzuzu *hands bilby the tube of Vegemite with the hope that its malty brown goodness has the power to prevent bezoars* Jun 8, 2010
PossibleUnderscore According to Wikipedia, trichophagia is the '...compulsive eating of hair. Most often, long hair is masticated (chewed) while still attached to the head and then swallowed.'
So I guess that pretty rules out mustaches and cropped hair. Jun 8, 2010
frogapplause I was wondering the same thing, possibleunderscore. How is this done?
By the way, my definition came from the Wordnik definitions page. Jun 8, 2010
bilby *nibbles frogapplause's moustache* Jun 8, 2010
PossibleUnderscore Is 'biting' figurative language? How do you bite off the end of a mustache? Unless it's very long, of course. Jun 8, 2010
frogapplause (The habit of biting off the ends of the hairs of the beard or mustache.)
Why just the beard or moustache? What about the hair on one's head? Jun 8, 2010