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pica

eating disorder
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pica
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Summary

pica is a class of disease[1]. pica ranks in the top 4% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,820 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: mental disorder[3]
  • Subclass of: eating disorder[4], disease[5]
  • Commons category: Pica (disorder)[6]
  • ICPC 2 ID: P11[7]
  • Symptoms and signs: eating[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pica (disorder)[9]
  • ICD-9-CM: 307.52[10]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C92566[11]
  • Different from: Pica[12]
  • Health specialty: psychiatry[13], psychology[14]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_12128[15], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:12128[16], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0011856[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[18]

Why It Matters

pica has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] pica is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

disease psychiatry psychology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Identifiers.org. ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['3TCKzu', '2wWjj3']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → eating disorder, disease
    Instance of → class of disease, mental disorder
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39742|batch #39742]]: subclass of disease, not instance"
  3. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → eating disorder, disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['3TCKzu', '2wWjj3']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fast id → 1063587
    Bibliothèque nationale de france id → 12443073w
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007548402705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  6. 22w ago · WikiHelper232 · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Symptoms and signs → eating
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → eating disorder, disease
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Gnd id: 7603153-6"
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