anthrop-, anthropo-, -anthrope, -anthropic, -anthropical, -anthropically, -anthropism, -anthropist, -anthropoid, -anthropus, -anthropy +

1. The delusion that a person has about being a dog which is imagined by the person who barks and growls.
2. A species of madness in which people imagine themselves to be dogs.
3. Insanity in which the patient behaves like a dog.

1. The theory that trees were involved in the origin of mankind; the aboreal origins of humans.
2. Study based on the theory that mankind came from trees.

A branch of anthropology that provides scientific descriptions of individual human societies.

The name given to a genus or a member of a genus represented by what was formerly believed to be the skull of a prehistoric human.

1. The branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
2. The application of physical anthropology in a legal setting, usually for the recovery and identification of skeletal human remains.

Forensic anthropology includes the identification of skeletal, decomposed, or unidentified human remains.

Forensic anthropologists may team up with forensic pathologists, forensic dentists, and homicide detectives to identify dead people and the time and manner of their deaths.

Forensic anthropology may also help determine the age, sex, stature, and unique features of the deceased from their remains. DNA forensics, blood groups, and fingerprints are all tools of the trade in forensic anthropology.

The delusion by a person that he/she is a cat.

A form of insanity in which a person believes herself/himself to be a horse.

According to some writers, it is a synonym of werewolf; one of those people who (according to medieval superstition) assumed the form of wolves.

In folklore, lycanthropy is the ability of a human to undergo transformation into a wolf or a lycanthrope. The term comes from ancient Greek lykánthropos (λυκάνθρωπος): λύκος, lýkos, "wolf" plus άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos, "mankind, human".

Other applicable terms include: insania lupina; melancholia canina; melancholia zooanthropic.

1. A kind of insanity described by ancient writers, in which the patient imagined himself/herself to be a wolf, and had the instincts and propensities of a wolf.

Now occasionally applied as a name of those forms of insanity in which patients imagine themselves to be beasts, and exhibit depraved appetites, alteration of voices, etc., in accordance with this delusion.

2. The kind of witchcraft which was supposed to consist of the assumption by human beings of the form and the nature of wolves.

Lycanthropy, the changing of men into wolves has been found over the centuries in literature and folklore through out the world

The term, werewolf, comes from the Latin vir for "man", literally, "man-wolf"; in Russia, the oborol; in Portugal, the lobishomen; in France, the loup-garou; and in Scandinavia, the vagr.

In medieval days, suspected werewolves were sometimes flayed alive in the search for the dreaded wolf skin hidden beneath their human one. While other man-into-beast stories certainly exist, like the frenzied bear-shirters, or ber-serkrs (berserkers), of Scandinavian origin, there are far more accounts of people being changed into wolves.

Lycanthropy is mentioned by Herodotus and Pliny, and there is even a section of the 11th-century treatise Decreta dealing with werewolves who seek absolution. King James VI of Scotland gave an unusually sensitive account of the warwoolfe in his Demonologie of 1597, calling it "a naturall superabundance of melancholie."

The name given to a large-toothed hominid of the Djetis deposits of central Java, Indonesia, that have been related to the Astralopithecines or to Homo erectus or Homo habilis. They are known only by mandible fragments.

1. Someone who has a hatred or distrust of all people (mankind).
2. Someone who avoids social contacts with people.

1. Like a misanthrope.
2. A hatred or contempt for mankind in general.
3. Avoiding the company of others; a strong preference to be solitary.

1. A reference to having a dislike, or hatred, of mankind in general.
2. Characterized by believing the worst about human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in, for example, the selflessness of others.

To be a misanthrope; to hate mankind.

1. Hatred of, or aversion to, mankind; or a profound morbid distrust of human beings individually and collectively.
2. A hatred of humans in general; pessimistic distrust of human nature expressed in thoughts and behaviors.