Term: geophagy: eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: city limit: the limits of the area occupied by a city or town
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: weldment: an assembly of parts welded together
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: lock: enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: uranyl oxalate: a salt obtained by the reaction of uranium salts with oxalic acid
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: railroad vine: a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: memento: a reminder of past events
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: triga: type genus of the Triglidae
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: monoamine oxidase inhibitor: any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: kingfish: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
Broader: pica: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | Unrelated: hotspur: a rash or impetuous person