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autocannibalism
autocannibalism n. 
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈkanᵻbl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɑdoʊˈkænəbəˌlɪzəm/ the consumption of (part of) an organism or cell by itself; autophagy; also figurative.
Brit. /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈkanᵻbəlɪz(ə)m/
, /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈkanᵻbəlɪz(ə)m//ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈkanᵻbl̩ɪz(ə)m/U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈkænəbəˌlɪzəm/
, /ˌɔdoʊˈkænəbəˌlɪzəm//ˌɑdoʊˈkænəbəˌlɪzəm/ΚΠ
1908 H. Fletcher Optimism 32 It is a resort to auto-cannibalism, as it were, but in this emergency Nature is wisely discriminating. She uses up the least necessary and degenerate tissue first.
1961 Spectator 7 July 4 One bit of State machinery that shows a very tough resistance to this auto-cannibalism is the civil service.
1986 Fortune 20 Jan. 50/2 Neurons short of acetylcholine may manufacture it by a process that Wurtman calls autocannibalism: they consume their own membranes, the ‘overcoats’ of the neurons, which are made of lecithin.
2003 Fortean Times Nov. 8 (heading) Eating people is wrong, they say, but does that apply to auto-cannibalism?
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