See Also: thanato-(medicine)
thanato-(dictionary)

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thanato- combining form of Greek thanatos death: see -O-. Before a vowel thanat-.
thanatocoe'nosis, *thanatoce'nosis noun, pl. -noses , Palaeontology a group of fossils occurring in the same location but not necessarily representing a former biocoenosis M20.
thanatoid adjective (rare) (a) Medicine resembling death; (b) Zoology deadly poisonous: M19.
thanato'philia noun undue or abnormal fascination with death L20.
thanato'phobia noun irrational fear of death M19.
thanato'phoric adjective (Medicine) lethal, deadly; spec. designating a fatal form of dwarfism: L20.
thana'topsis noun (rare) contemplation of death E19.