onychotillomania

onychotillomania
A tendency to pick at the nails. [onycho- + G. tillo, to pluck, + mania, insanity]

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on·y·cho·til·lo·ma·nia .än-i-kə-.til-ə-'mā-nē-ə, -nyə n an obsessive-compulsive disorder marked by the picking at or pulling out of one's fingernails or toenails

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on·y·cho·til·lo·ma·nia (on″ĭ-ko-til″o-maґne-ə) compulsive picking or tearing at the nails.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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