| eating | 1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| eating disorders | A group of disorders characterised by physiological and psychological disturbances in appetite or food intake. (12 Dec 1998) |
| eating epilepsy | Epileptic, often generalised, seizures provoked by eating; a type of reflex epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plant-eating | Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| heart-eating | Preying on the heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| starch-eating | A morbid craving for starch. Synonym: starch-eating. Origin: amylo-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| dirt-eating | Geophagismgeophagy The practice of eating dirt or clay. Synonym: dirt-eating, earth-eating. Origin: Geo-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| earth-eating | Geophagismgeophagy The practice of eating dirt or clay. Synonym: dirt-eating, earth-eating. Origin: Geo-+ G. Phago, to eat (05 Mar 2000) |
| feeding and eating disorders of childhood | Mental disorders related to feeding and eating that are usually diagnosed in infancy or early childhood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| flesh-eating bacteria | A strain of Group A streptococcus which, in severe cases, can destroy tissue as fast as surgeons can cut it out. The rapid destruction of tissue caused by these bacteria is localised, so it is unlikely to be caused by a general overstimulation of the immune system by, for example: superantigen exotoxin A. Instead, the invasive strains of strep A probably have other toxin such as exotoxin B, an enzyme (i.e. A cysteine protease) that destroys tissue by breaking down protein. (09 Oct 1997) |