Parafunctional activity Parafunctional activity A para-functional habit or parafunctional habit is the habitual exercise of a body part in a way that is other than the most common use of that body part. The term is most commonly used by dentists, orthodontists, or maxillofacial specialists to refer to para-functional uses of the mouth, tongue and jaw. Oral para-functional habits may include bruxism (tooth-clenching and/or grinding), tongue tension ("tongue thrusting"), fingernail biting, pencil or pen chewing, mouth breathing, and any other habitual use of the mouth unrelated to eating, drinking, or speaking. Crenated tongue is a descriptive term for when scalloping develops on
Shaking the Habitual the album "unnavigable and unknowable, almost impossible to write about and even harder to listen to." "The Guardian"s Alexis Petridis felt that ""Shaking the Habitual"s problem is that the Knife seem to have dismissed the idea of making your point concisely as merely another affectation of a decadent and corrupt society", describing the album as "alternately utterly gripping and unbearably boring; incredibly bold and strangely flaccid, viscerally thrilling and hopelessly over-thought." In March 2014, "Shaking the Habitual" won the Nordic Music Prize. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Shaking the Habitual". Shaking the Habitual Shaking the Habitual is the