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Cecotrophy

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cecotrophnounAlternative form of caecotroph. [(biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.]
caecotropenounAlternative spelling of caecotroph. [(biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.]
cacotrophianounAlternative form of cacotrophy. [(medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition.]
cacotrophynoun(medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition.
lecitotrophynounMisspelling of lecithotrophy. [A form of development in which the embryo receives no nutrition other than the yolk originally contained within its egg.]
coprophagianounAlternative form of coprophagy. [The act or an instance of eating feces.]
zoöphagynounAlternative form of zoophagy. [(rare) The feeding on animals.]
ceratophagynounAlternative form of keratophagy. [The condition of being keratophagous]
mycetophagynounAlternative form of mycophagy. [(biology) The eating of fungus.]
oxalotrophynoun(biology) feeding (obtaining nourishment) on oxalates or oxalic acid
aphagynoun(medicine, zoology) Inability to feed due to anatomical deficiencies.
creophagynounAlternative spelling of kreophagy. [Flesh-eating; meat-eating.]
chthonophagynoun(pathology) Alternative form of chthonophagia. [(pathology) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.]
cacochymynounAlternative form of cacochymia. [(medicine, obsolete) A vitiated state of the humours, or bodily fluids.]
mucophagianounAlternative form of mucophagy. [The consumption of mucus.]
lecithotrophynounA form of development in which the embryo receives no nutrition other than the yolk originally contained within its egg.
nectivorynounAlternative form of nectarivory. [(zoology) The eating of nectar, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal.]
copraemianounAlternative form of copræmia. [(medicine) A condition caused by retention of faecal matter and its absorption into the blood.]
ankylostomiasisnounAlternative spelling of ancylostomiasis. [Infection by the hookworm Ancylostoma.]
lithopaedionnounAlternative form of lithopedion. [(medicine) A calcium-encased foetus that occurs in ectopic abdominal pregnancies when the foetus dies and is not reabsorbed by the maternal body, whereby the maternal system encases the foreign body (foetus) in calcium to isolate it.]

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