A sexual perversion in which sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent upon the subject being an amputee.
A fear or dread of being around people who have an amputation.
1. Capable of spontaneous division.
2. A reference to a cell that propagates itself by fission (cell division) without previous conjugation (joining together).
The sacred area surrounding a temple in Greek antiquity.
A sacred precinct, literally, a place cut off, a section.
Greek temenos (τέμενος, from the Greek verb τέμνω "to cut"). It was a piece of land cut off and declared to be an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, a holy grove, or a holy precinct.
Examples of temene: The Pythian race-course was called a temenos; as well as, the sacred valley of the Nile, the Acropolis was the temenos of Pallas, and Olympia was the temenos of Zeus.