Literally "eat your own meat". It is a common practice in some animals that undergo a metamorphosis and feed on the remains of the body that they discard. In humans and evolved animals it occurs in extreme cases of survival or serious psychiatric pathologies. It consists of the Greek voices 945; 965; 964; 959; 962; ( autós "same, by itself") 963; 945; 961; 958; ( sarx , "meat" ) 966; 945; 947; 949; 953; 957; ( fagein , "eat" ) . See self-cannibalism, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, sarcophagus.
