aerophagia | (noun) swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence) | - |
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anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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anthropophagy | (noun) human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh | - |
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aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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bacteriophage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: phage |
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bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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coprophagia | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagy |
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coprophagy | (noun) eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity | Synonyms: coprophagia |
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dysphagia | (noun) condition in which swallowing is difficult or painful | - |
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esophageal | (adjective) relating to the esophagus | - |
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esophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: oesophagitis |
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esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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esophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: gorge, gullet, oesophagus |
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gastroesophageal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the stomach and esophagus | - |
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geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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geophagy | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagia |
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macrophage | (noun) a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream | - |
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microphage | (noun) a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria) | - |
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mycophage | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophagist |
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mycophagist | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophage |
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mycophagy | (noun) the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild) | - |
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myrmecophagous | (adjective) feeding on ants | - |
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necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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necrophagy | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagia |
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odynophagia | (noun) severe pain on swallowing due to a disorder of the esophagus | - |
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oesophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: esophagitis |
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oesophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: esophagoscope |
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oesophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, gullet |
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omophagia | (noun) the eating of raw food | - |
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phage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: bacteriophage |
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phagocyte | (noun) a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms | Synonyms: scavenger cell |
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phagocytic | (adjective) capable of functioning as a phagocyte | - |
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phagocytosis | (noun) process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection | - |
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phytophagic | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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phytophagous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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sarcophagus | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) | - |
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scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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sphagnum | (noun) any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | Synonyms: bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum moss |
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zoophagous | (adjective) (of animals) carnivorous | Synonyms: flesh-eating, meat-eating |
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zoophagy | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: carnivorousness |
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