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trichophagia
trichophagia n. 
/ˌtrʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈfeɪdʒ(ɪ)ə/,
Brit. /ˌtrɪkə(ʊ)ˈfeɪdʒ(ɪ)ə/
, /ˌtrɪkə(ʊ)ˈfeɪdʒ(ɪ)ə//ˌtrʌɪkə(ʊ)ˈfeɪdʒ(ɪ)ə/U.S. /ˌtrɪkəˈfeɪdʒ(i)ə/
the phenomenon or habit of eating or chewing one's own hair. [After French trichophagie (Dubreuilh & Maillard 1901, in Ann. Dermat. & Syph. 2 686) < tricho- tricho- comb. form1 + -phagie -phagy comb. form.] /ˌtrɪkəˈfeɪdʒ(i)ə/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > depraved appetite
pica1563
green sickness1596
malacia1656
pique1678
dirt-eating1817
geophagy1821
earth hunger1857
geophagia1863
coprophagy1891
parorexia1897
coprophagia1906
trichophagia1909
trichophagy1963
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Trichophagia, the habit of biting off the ends off the hairs of the beard or mustache.
1938 Surgery 4 946 Matas draws the logical analogy between trichophagia and the habit of biting the fingernails, common to both sexes in early childhood and adolescence.
1980 Jrnl. Pediatrics 97 946 Iron deficiency may..be a cause rather than a result of trichophagia and trichobezoars in some patients.
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