coprographia
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coprographia (uncountable)
- (psychiatry) The making of vulgar writings or drawings, especially when done involuntarily.
- 1995, Mary Robertson, Valsamma Eapen, Movement and Allied Disorders in Childhood, page 2:
- Symptoms such as mental coprolalia (the thinking of obscenities), coprographia (the writing of obscenities) and mental palilalia are usually unrecognized unless specifically asked about.
- 1995, James C. Harris, Developmental Neuropsychiatry, page 477:
- Trimble (199 ) has noted tatooing in some individuals with Tourette's disorder and also coprographia.
- 2004, F Clifford Rose, Neurology Of The Arts: Painting, Music And Literature, page 325:
- Examination of the 374 letters written by Wolfgang Mozart shows scatological writing (coprographia) in 39, or 10.5%, which mention shit (29 times), arse and arse hole (27), muck (17), fart (6), piddling or pissing (6), but without the words being placed illogically, if not inappropriately.
- 2005, Jean-Ronel Corbier, Optimal Treatment for Children with Autism and Other Neuropsychiatric Conditions, page 43:
- Some speculate that Mozart the musician had coprographia.
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