phagia
-phagie (from ancient Greek φαγεῖν phagein , German 'eat, eat' ), is a bound lexeme , in the sense of a word- forming element ( suffix ) that can be used to form female nouns. The plural form is -phagien .
biology
In biology, the compound words denote diets based on certain types of food .
- Monophagy (very narrow food spectrum of living beings)
- Oligophagy (food-oriented animals)
- Polyphagia (ecology) (wide range of animal foods);
- Entomophagy (insect eater),
- Coprophagia (feces eater),
- Mycetophagia (fungus eaters),
- Necrophagy (scavengers),
- Pantophagy (omnivores),
- Phytophagy (herbivores),
- Saprophagy (putrefaction),
- Xylophagia (wood eater),
- Zoophagia (carnivores);
- Geophagy (earth food), as exclusive nutrition for example for worms or as a food supplement for example for dogs and humans,
- Matriphagia , stands for animal species (especially arthropods ) whose young eat their own mother
- Lithophagy, on the one hand the absorption of stones into the digestive tract, see under gastrolith , on the other hand a way of eating in which stones are gnawed into and off (only with some types of snail ).
The Greek φαγεῖν semantically corresponds to the Latin verb vorare , from which some terms are formed instead of -phagie , for example
- Carnivores (the corresponding name derived from the Greek sarcophagi stands for a form of coffin),
- Herbivores (herbivores),
- Omnivores (omnivores),
- Piscivoren (fish-eaters; the corresponding Greek term ichthyophages were used to refer to ethnic groups or peoples who lived in a primitive way and fed on fish).
Medical pathology
In medical pathology there are
- Allotriophagia (an eating disorder)
- Dermatophagia (skin biting)
- Trichophagia (abnormal hair eating),
- Coprophagia in humans (feces),
- Polyphagia (medicine) (pathologically increased appetite and correspondingly excessive food intake).
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