Dirt eating

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	The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism.
(Med.)	Same as Chthonophagia. - Humboldt.

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Because underlying psychological or biologic abnormalities are not easy to establish, I explore only what appears to be nonpathological dirt eating in pregnant women (especially in sub-Saharan Africa), migrants from sub-Saharan cultures to other parts of the world (notably the United States), and children worldwide.

Eating dirt. (Another Dimension) by Callahan, Gerald N. / Emerging Infectious Diseases

Nor were dirt eating children likely to appear there, for future building seemed unlikely.

Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation by Flatt, Victor B. / Environmental Law

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