Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk.
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Examples for "pica "
Examples for "pica "
1 What his father would have given for some pica Affinity beasts.
2 It was a folio, pro patria size, in pica , with long primer notes.
3 Here is the round-hand, he went on, taking up an unused pica type.
4 A large ffount of pica Letter very good, cast by ditto.
5 Sociodemographic and household characteristics, dietary diversity, pica and recent morbidity were ascertained by interview.
1 Structured interviews were conducted to understand geophagia practices.
2 Anaemia, the use of African traditional medicines and craving of non-nutritive substances in a previous pregnancy were associated with geophagia .
3 Conclusions: Geophagia is practised by a considerable proportion of pregnant women in Johannesburg, especially migrant women.
1 This could explain the human tendency towards geophagy , traditionally practiced in many non-modern cultures but now considered bizarre.
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