Medical Terms Most People Don’t Understand But Should
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Julia Austin
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Phagy
Phagy basically means to eat something, and when you hear it at the end of a medical term, whatever came before it is what is being eaten. So, example, embryophagy means to eat an embryo–something many animals do. Humans might suffer from autophagy, in which a cell essentially eats itself as a form of preservation.
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