mucophagy
English
Alternative forms
- mucophagia
Etymology
muco- + -phagy
Noun
mucophagy (uncountable)
- The consumption of mucus.
- 2011, Karl Shaw, 10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse (page 19)
- 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)