Stedman's Medical Dictionary
autophagia
- Biting one's own flesh; as a symptom of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
- Maintenance of the nutrition of the whole body by metabolic consumption of some of the body tissues.
Synonym(s): autophagy
[auto- + G. phagō, to eat]
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