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mucophagia

mucophagia is the alternative form of mucophagy.

Meaning of mucophagy

Noun

mucophagy (uncountable)

  1. The consumption of mucus.
    • Dr. Bischinger describes mucophagy—the act of eating one's own extracted mucus—as “making great sense medically and a perfectly natural thing to do."2011, Karl Shaw, 10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse, page 19

Questions about mucophagia

What is mucophagia the alternative form of?
Mucophagia is the alternative form of mucophagy.

Words near mucophagia in the dictionary

  1. mucoperlin
  2. mucopexies
  3. mucopexy
  4. mucophage
  5. mucophages
  6. mucophagia
  7. mucophagic
  8. mucophagy
  9. mucoplasties
  10. mucoplasty
  11. mucopolysaccaridosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mucophagia (page history and authors); mucophagy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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