phagia

-phagia

variant of -phagy.

Origin:
< Neo-Latin < Greek
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Phagia is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Medical Dictionary

-phagia or -phagy
suff.
The eating of a specified substance or in a specified manner: dysphagia.

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