necro-, necr-, necron-, -necrosis, nekro- +

1. Someone who has a pathological preoccupation with dead bodies or the subject of death.
2. A person with a morbid attraction to dead bodies.
3. Anyone who has a morbid tendency to long for, or to desire, death.

An instrument for measuring a dead body or any of its parts or organs.

1. The simulation of death by a mental patient who believes himself/herself to be dead.
2. The pathological delusion in which a person is convinced that he/she is dead.

Feigning the appearance of death, as certain beetles.

A surgical procedure in which necrotic tissue is removed.

A parasite that decomposes nonliving organic matter to obtain nutrients that are then absorbed through cell membranes.

A condition or disease process principally characterized by tissue death or gangrene.

1. To eat or subsist on dead bodies; such as, carrion, by organisms or certain animals.
2. Feeding on dead material; saprophytic.

The term carrion refers to the decaying flesh of a dead body; rotten, filthy, etc.

Feeding on the flesh of dead animals (carrion) or other dead material by certain insects and some animals; saprophytic.

In psychiatry, a person who is morbidly attracted to corpses; also attributed and figuratively, a morbid fancy for the dead, or for contact with dead bodies.

An obsessive fascination with death and corpses.

In psychiatry, a paraphilia whose condition is that the love object, whether heterosexual or homosexual, must be dead before orgasm can be achieved.

Although a rare perversion overall, it is claimed by some that morticians, undertakers, etc., contribute a relatively high proportion of subjects who have the perversion in either a grossly overt or an attenuated (reduced) form.

Although usually thought of as a condition limited to males, necrophilia was described in a female in 1976.

A reference to a psychotic condition in which a person has sexual arousal when in the presence of dead bodies.

In psychiatry, a morbid desire to be in the presence of dead bodies.

Having a preference for dead tissue, a reference to certain bacteria.

1. Sexual arousal brought about by dead bodies or sexual acts with dead bodies; usually of males with female corpses.
2. A morbid fondness for being in the presence of dead bodies.
3. A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is possible only if the sexual object, whether of the same or opposite sex, is dead.
4. A morbid yearning for death.