What is a vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia called?
pica — (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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