Usually means: Compulsive eating of ice habitually.
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  1. pagophagia: Wiktionary
  2. pagophagia: Dictionary.com
  3. Pagophagia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. pagophagia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  5. pagophagia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  1. pagophagia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. pagophagia: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The pathological consumption of ice, a manifestation of pica, often resulting from iron or nutritional deficiencies.

Similar:
xylophagia, pica, green sickness, zoophagia, phagism, phagomania, omophagia, geomelophagia, osteophagia, megaphagia, more...

Opposite:
cryophobia, fear of cold

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Similar:
xylophagia, pica, green sickness, zoophagia, phagism, phagomania, omophagia, geomelophagia, osteophagia, megaphagia, more...

Opposite:
cryophobia, fear of cold



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