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Abstract
The act of injuring one's own body to the extent of cutting off or permanently destroying a limb or other essential part of a body.
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- Autotomy Human
- Self Mutilating Behavior
- Autotomy Humans
- Behavior, Self Mutilating
- Mutilating Behavior, Self
- Mutilation, Self
- Self Mutilating Behaviors
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR is also available
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Self Mutilation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012652. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012652
- Self Mutilation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67569586