When to Seek Medical Care. If you have the signs and symptoms of a coccyx injury or unexplained discomfort in the tailbone area, contact your doctor. It may be necessary for the doctor to decide if the injury is traumatic or if the pain is caused by other, more serious, problems.
Etymology: Gk, nekros + philein, to love. 1 a morbid liking for being with dead bodies. 2 a morbid desire to have sexual contact with a dead body, usually of men to perform a sexual act with a dead woman. necrophile, necrophiliac, n. Sexuoeroticism that hinges on fantasies about or actual sexual interactions with a corpse; the fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviours cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
by Erica Nagel. Necrotizing fasciitis, or the flesh eating bacteria, is a skin disease which can be caused by several bacteria, but the most common and deadly causative agent is Streptococcus pyogenes, or group A streptococcus, from here on denoted as GAS (Tortora 591).AS is the causative agent for several diseases and is among the most common human pathogens (Tortora 590). This bacterium also causes scarlet fever, impetigo, cellulitis, and sepsis. The only known natural reservoir of S. pyogenes is the skin and mucous membranes of humans (Luckman 1).