What's the difference between geophagia and geophagy?
Geophagia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The present paper reports two experiments in which geophagia in response to stress and arthritis was measured.
(2) Geophagia, in the form of clay-eating, is often observed during pregnancy in the human population.
(3) We investigated geophagia in the black population of rural Holmes County, Mississippi.
(4) The unsuspected finding was a 46% history of marked pica of clay (geophagia) in a subset of 26 patients.
(5) The number of herbal remedies that have been touted is astounding, and the entire science of Geophagia evolved in the hope identifying of those population-specific customs that may have had a positive effect on birth outcome as an adaptive mechanism.
(6) Reported is a case representing an unusual form of geophagia, in which ingestion of pebbles by a 27-year-old mentally retarded woman resulted in impaction and complete filling of the colon with pebbles.
(7) The syndrome of dwarfism, hypogonadism, iron-deficiency anemia and geophagia, first reported in 1960 from Iran, was thought to be limited to males.
(8) 1) Geophagia characterized by, severe, anaemia, dwarfism, hypogonadism and hepatosplenomegaly is sometimes seen in young patients (and children) in Iran.
(9) Geophagia, the consumption of nonnutritive dirt, has previously been shown to be increased when rats have been made acutely ill.
(10) The association of iron-deficiency anaemia, hepatomegaly, dwarfism and hypogonadism with a geophagia syndrome is noted and its pathogenesis explained.
(11) It was concluded that geophagia may occur in response to any homeostatic alteration (stress state).
(12) Geophagia, the eating of dirt, usually clay, has been recorded in every region of the world both as idiosyncratic behavior of isolated individuals and as culturally prescribed behavior of particular societies.
(13) The absence of geophagia in noncontingently poisoned and "sham" injected control groups indicates that the pica was due to the acquisition of a conditioned illness during the conditioning trials.
(14) Elimination of the disease requires surveillance of dogs, especially puppies, and avoidance of geophagia.
(15) The significance of pica and geophagia as a public health problem is well known.
(16) They ate significantly more kaolin (a nonnutritive substance) than controls, suggesting that geophagia is a behavioral measure of illness.
(17) The ultrastructure of intestinal mucosa in two geophagia patients with growth retardation, hypogonadism, hepatosplenomegaly, zinc deficiency, iron deficiency, and anemia was studied with an electron microscope.
(18) Geophagia has been suggested as one of the factors leading to hyperkalemia, but our data do not support this notion.
(19) He briefly reviews: spontaneous post-cesarian perforation of the cecum, post-partum paralysis of the external popliteal sciatic, carpal canal syndrome in pregnacy, meralgia paresthetica in pregnant women, diaphragmatic hernia and its complications during pregnancy and labor, post-mortem cesarian, the "molar lung", early pregnancy and late pregnancy, fulguration and electroshock in pregnant women, the "acrobatic fetus", the rupture of an aneurysm of the splenic artery, geophagia or "pica", extramucous ruptures of the uterus, "virtually pure" type XX familial gonadic dysgenesis with deaf-muteness, gynecologic pathomimesis, genital perihepatitis or Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome, vulvar mammary ectopism, post-hysterectomic pregnancy, recurrent hydramnios, locoregional ecchymatosis.
(20) The chance of detectability of geophagia is highest in the colon and can be improved by using low penetration films, particularly for smaller amounts of ingested clay.
Geophagy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The geophagy of less than 20% of the children accounted for greater than 60% of the total soil ingested.
(2) Clays employed historically in the consumption of astringent acorns plus seven edible clays from Africa were examined in relation to the functional significance of human geophagy.
(3) We suggest that the physiological significance of geophagy made it important in the evolution of human dietary behavior.
(4) The most common form of pica, geophagy, has direct adverse nutritional effects and also exposes children to soil-borne infection.
(5) Existing methods for assessing geophagy are either inappropriate for field use (radiology) or unreliable (reporting).
(6) Faecal levels of dietary silica (less than 2% dry wt stool) can be distinguished from levels due to geophagy (up to 25% dry wt stool).