Corpses Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Corpses Information and Meaning
See also BURIAL; DEATH
- autopsy
- an inspection and dissection of a body after death, usually to determine the cause of death. Also called necropsy, post-mortem examination.
- necromania
- an obsession with death or the dead. —necromaniac, n.
- necrophagy
- the practice of feeding on carrion. —necrophage, n. —necrophagous, adj.
- necrophilia, necrophily, necrophilism
- an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. —necrophile, necrophiliac, n.
- necrophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of death. Also called thanatophobia.
- 2. an abnormal fear of corpses. —necrophobe, n. —necrophobic, adj.
- necropsy
- autopsy.
- necrotomy
- 1. the dissection of corpses.
- 2. the surgical excision of a piece of dead bone. —necrotomist, n. —necrotomic, adj.
- resurrectionism
- the exhuming and stealing of bodies from graves, especially for dissection; body snatching. —resurrection man, n.
- thanatophobia
- necrophobia, def. 1.