temno-, temn- +

A person who has a need for an extreme or dangerous stimulus to achieve sexual arousal or orgasm characterized by the individual requesting amputation of one's own healthy limb for erotic reasons.

1. A form of paraphilia (the need for an extreme or dangerous stimulus to achieve sexual arousal or orgasm) characterized by the individual requesting amputation of an extremity for erotic reasons.
2. A paraphilia in which sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent upon the subject's being a self-amputee.

Paraphilia is characterized by sexual arousal to unconventional stimuli that are not considered to be part of normal sexual arousal patterns. It is also defined as a need for an extreme or dangerous stimulus to achieve sexual arousal or orgasm.

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.