phagia

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-phagia

var. of -phagy.

Origin:
< NL < Gk

a combining form meaning “eating,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element, esp. as a practice or habit: allotriophagy; anthropophagy.

Also, -phagia.

Origin:
< Gk -phagia; see -phage, -y ³

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Medical Dictionary

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

-phagy suff.
Variant of -phagia.

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