Taber's Medical Dictionary
-phagia, -phagy
[Gr. phagein, to eat]
Suffixes meaning eating, ingestion, devouring.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "-phagia, -phagy." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743669/all/_phagy.
-phagia, -phagy. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743669/all/_phagy. Accessed May 25, 2026.
-phagia, -phagy. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743669/all/_phagy
-phagia, -phagy [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2026 May 25]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743669/all/_phagy.
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