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apotemnophilia

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Noun — A mental condition in which someone has a strong, lasting wish for one particular limb to be amputated.

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Coined in a 1977 paper by J. Money and colleagues in the Journal of Sex Research, from Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, 'away') plus τέμνω (témnō, 'cut') and -philia.

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